Great idea. I hope the intended audience listens.
I have 3 suggestions for your new series of polls. I believe these are the major causes of the user retention problem that can easily be fixed or re-enabled.
Do users want control of their content? Do you approve of Steemit developers disabling the users ability edit and delete posts after a post has been up only 20 days. This worked fine previously, then was disabled at 30 days, and at the last hardfork reduced to only 20 days. Ask if users want to be able to correct or delete their content that may be private, incorrect, unprofessional, or just clutter that they want to delete from their blog.
Do users want replies after 20 days? Do you approve of Steemit developers disabling replies on your content after only 20 days? This worked fine previously, then was disabled at 30 days, and at the last hardfork reduced to only 20 days. The only reason to do this is to force more content generation. Ask the users if they would like to get replies forever on any post in their blog.
Do users want a tip button? Most users votes do absolutely nothing, once people figure this out they either stop voting or give their power back to bots (run by the same developers that still refuse to give people 1 cent of voting power). Ask the users if they would like a simple way to leave a tip (or multiple tips on updated posts) for content producers they like.
These normal user friendly features and content control given to users on every other platform have either been purposely ignored or actually disabled to force more content generation. Plus, people have been asking for a simple Tip button since day 1.
Ask the users how they feel about this.
Thanks for the suggestion. I will do a lot of poll's in the future, I like to find out what the people like or dislike here on Steemit.
Awesome news. A few more user experience focused projects like yours might help with the retention problem.