"Who's to say how our platform will evolve over the years"
I hope for the best, but we must vigorously fight the negative elements that would hurt us, the spammers, trolls, self-appointed police and their bots. Users who are here only to disrupt and bully others. There are other issues of course, but these I am focusing on right now.
For sure, remember that Steem has a clear advantage in these matters over other platforms that are infested by trolls. Here anyone can police in their own way, the incentives for downvoting may not be the best right now and come at a great risk of the account doing it gets bullied by bigger ones, but hopefully somewhere down the line we will figure out the right mix. At least we incentivize people not to be trolls to begin with and work on their account and its reputation instead for the long haul, but there are always a few that stick out and will just troll for trolling's sake.
Thank you, I am hoping for the best, being the eternal optimist. I don't care about the value of steem or how best to get votes - I care about my fellow artists in this case, and hope that we have a better community without backbiting and stalking. Artists are sometimes their own worse enemy, so really, to be beaten down, they don't need any "help" from the outside, they are pretty good at beating up each other and themselves. That's the nature of the beast.