In just looking at "the big picture," what is interesting about the Steem environment — and why I even became part of it in the first place — is that it builds on a social model the predates Facebook. Early blogging was about relationship building, rather than simply getting page views. Blogging (and content creation, in general) was far more interactive.

It was actually MySpace that shot that to bits... suddenly it all became a contest of "who has more FRIENDS," without actually offering much of anything to those "friends."

The problem with that model — even today — is that "numbers" do not really result in consumers, but "niche interests" do.

I watch this on twitter, for example. Someone with 50,000 dedicated followers in an interactive niche specialty often can get 10x (or more!) the retweets and interaction with their content, compared with someone who supposedly has millions of so-called "followers."

It's good advice you offer here... and certainly worth bringing up. Resteemed.