One immediate suggestion is to produce a weekly summary of all the revenue generated and show its application: Author Rewards by Account, Curation Rewards by Account, Allocation to Administration, R&D, Investor Rewards (Dividend/Interest Payments), Allocation to Head Office – the whole lot - it is supposed to be transparent, is it not?

Somebody was doing this (and ironically getting heavily rewarded for it).

The primary problem isn't the rewards pool, it's that there are fewer and fewer people joining and staying on the platform. This, as you rightly point out, is due to the management.

Unfortunately, they want to have their cake and eat it so to speak. They want the benefits of being in charge. However when it comes to strategy, they'd rather the "ants" take up the baton.

To give you an idea; we have had users advertising Steemit on highway billboards; and being rewarded many thousands of dollars by the Whales. Even though that is possibly the worst way to advertise any website, let alone an obscure "social media" one.

Then we have had various events, the biggest one being Steemfest. Again, this was user generated, with minimum support from HQ. Unfortunately these events seem to have been attended by people who already knew about Steemit.

The reason you haven't been lambasted, is because these rumblings have been going on for a while. So when a new comer, sees what we see, and says what we've been saying, it's a kind of grim justification.

I like the principles you put forward in your first article, however Ned & Dan can't be sacked, as they own it; and they have hand-picked their generals to oversee the fall of the citadel.

Cg