Yea definitely a good point about the price of STEEM being one of, if not the the most important return mechanism for your account value. Probably a lot of ppl overlook this.

Diggin' the idea of amping up on tossing some Steem rewards to new users and also the steem-promo peeps. I personally do not do this enough. I rarely visit the introduce yourself tag anymore, however, almost anytime I see a new user come up in either "new" or my own feed (via a resteem) I'm usual at least checking them out to see if they are real and voting accordingly lol.