RE: TAPPING THE SLEEPING GIANT OF STEEMIT! WHO and WHY????? My first Argument...
Yes, it can. I personally think that a good step to make Steemit a great and profitable place for everyone is the following:
@steemit founders work hard on curation (or carefully hire someone to do this on their behalf) and use a part of their voting power to upvote let's say 30 of the best posts/comments every day. Good posts will immediately appear in Hot tab and get more exposure and even more profit.
Moreover, this will help to get much more quality content in Hot tab, so new potential users will be much more likely impressed by the content quality they see in Hot tab, by the profit the platform is able to offer, and those users will be inspired to open an account and start blogging. And of course this approach will inspire the current Steemit users as well :)
Well, I would love to see them give a 8000 USD upvote to a minnow, damn, that would be nuts...
They would feel like they have won the lottery! lol
No, that would be really bad idea. They will need to limit their voting power. Let's say if they upvote 30 best posts/comments per day with $10-$250 each (depending on quality) that would be pretty healthy for the platform and efficient at the same time.
Just checked at steemd.com, @steemit hasn't voted in the last year...
Exactly, this is what needs to be changed.