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RE: Encouraging Users Large and Small to Vote for Comments
I also believe this approach is very positive for all of us who are investing in steem. For steem to truly take off, it will need to grow its user-base. If we're truly ambitious and hope to see steem one day become "the next Facebook" (or something of the sort), it will have to provide a platform where people want to engage more than on competing platforms. And incentivising good and fruitful conversations that are rewarding for the people engaging is the best way to achieve this as far as I can see.
So I think people who are investing in steem would earn more in the long term by allocating VP to maximize the user experience of the platform, rather than maximizing the short term return from curation rewards.
The engagement part is absolutely necessary for Steemit to really take off... It's what separates a mere blog to a full-blown social network.
Agreed, we have to grow and improve our user-base. The more we vote on comments the higher the quality of both post and comments we will get.
I think investors doing any amount of due diligence would see the lack of engagement we currently have. That is fine for now, but it is time to start improving it.
I completely agree. I have the most fun on Steemit when there's a good natured back and forth in the comments. The best articles are the ones that set the stage for a lively comment section.