I believe wholeheartedly that you are right!

The core principle of blockchain tech and the Steemit platform is that we are a self governing, self affirming community and WE create the value that we recognise in eachother.

The beauty of being decentralised is that there is no greedy megacorp ready to milk us for all we are worth by monetising our vapid, middle of the road, appropriate, politically correct content. So for us to take on that role ourselves would be dangerous in my opinion.

We have an opportunity to have and to air real views on the world and everything in it with no fear of being demonetised by a Zuckerberg or a Google or have our content pepper bombed with corporate ads pushing products that we don't agree with and that do not represent our integrity.

Voting bots, load the dice, tilt the table and give (in my humble opinion) an unfair, unethical advantage...I GENUINELY believe that in the longterm the only true value on this platform and others that will copycat it, will come from solid, quality content that the community wants. I believe this content will come from those who have stuck it out and laid real foundations here and contributed consistently over the longterm.

Many will come and go, some heading for the hills when they are not trillionaires within 6 weeks, yet others will manipulate the system and run laughing maniacally with a sackfull of cash...These people are NOT the pioneers that it takes to create a new culture or community, they are the old world equivalent of snakeoil salesmen, profiteers and those lovely people who have one spin of the wheel too many and crash the world banking system!

The intimation that you make is the correct one to my understanding, let us create, let us be rewarded and ranked by our peers and let us lay solid foundations that will reward us for many years to come.

BUT more importantly, let the process be organic, let it grow in a very natural way, let us learn from our successes and failures and become better creators, this will teach us to hone our skills further until we are accomplished to a point we could never have foresaw in the beginning.

This will bring us rewards and skills that will serve us well going forward. I believe in your view of what should and should not be happening on the platform and in the community and in my heart I KNOW you are right.

Keep going the way you are going, I will too and let us lay down the tracks for the super bullet train we both KNOW we really have here!

Best wishes for the journey, I hope it is a far more enriching one than you could ever have guessed my friend :)