hehe, glad I could make you laugh.. I was trying to bring some humor to this random ass post.

Beautifully flawed beast is a lovely way to describe it actually.. I like that. And yes more users is the solution to many things.. but it still is one big bucket of everyone trying to figure out where the hell they are. I do have big hopes for the upcoming changes though.

Here's a interesting question for ya:
How do you feel about getting rid of the rewards pool entirely, and instead relaying on user-given tips ( similar to how the site cent.co does it )?

This is something that has been brought up a lot and quite frankly I used to hate the idea.. but the more I think about it the less value I see in the rewards pool.

I am just conflicted though as I think having creators being able to own and monetize their work is important.. just I don't think that every damn post necessarily needs to be monetized on the platform.

But how can we build a place where both exist? A fun place to hang out and share.. and then a place where content worth something is rewarded? Tipping is of course a simple thing that could be added in to help with that part too I guess.

Communities with their own SMT's could solve this.. and I think that is the idea.. for them to take the main stage and STEEM sink back to just being a utility coin, one needed to interact on the chain itself.. but I have a hard time visualizing how that goes exactly.

Currently rewards are the only draw we have, if we remove them.. we better replace them with some damn cool to attract and keep people here is what I will say.

I haven't checked out cent.co.. will do so and finish my opinion haha