As we have been monitoring the fluctuation closely . i believe contests are not the only thing that is gonna help , we need more communications from top witnesses , the steemit team on how are they planning to take forward steem in coming future

one of the major concern is abuse in steem after the hive split --
see my post here on what we are trying to do with this
https://steemit.com/steem/@steem-supporter/we-need-to-act-now

second is flags imporant by @jaki01 on this post https://steemit.com/steem/@jaki01/can-we-have-downvotes-and-at-the-same-time-prevent-flag-wars#@steem-supporter/q8v87d

see my comment here https://steemit.com/steem/@steem-supporter/q8v87d

we should also focus on how the https://steemitwallet.com/~witnesses currently is -- we need to clear all the shits here at least make the page show only the top 100 witness those are not disables or stale ,, lots of people are still voting them as they are visible -- i wrote a campaign post about this

https://steemit.com/steem/@steem-supporter/a-much-needed-campaign

Apart from 100 day contest on making posts and whatever -- i guess we need to also start a campaign that can save steem for abuse , increase the number of micro-services dapps that runs on the chain , increase the number of transactions that happens in chain , make more communications from users , reward those groups/communities/peoples who are trying to add value to steem .
for example @canna-curate is trying to make the cannibas community adopt steem , @hashkings is developing a game where you can virtually grow many types of weed , we are as well working on steemdb , steemsql , abuse-identification,
to add value to steem , we all need to work together as a team , lets make steem great again

thanks , i hope my comment makes any sense to you guys

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