I do recall on steem that the Intro yourself thing was everyone's first stop, both to post and to do some daily reading. Since the advent of hive and the communities break outs, I haven't seen an intro yourself post in a longgg time when I have checked back around here. And definitely none in any trending columns. Which is where I'd expect them to land if somebody really awesome showed up here. But this brings us back to what would compel somebody really awesome to show up here? Whats our value prop really come to, if its not merit?

Do you expect a Mr Beast, a Neil deGrasse Tyson, or a Taylor Swift to appear on Hive? Yes yes, extreme examples to make a point, but B-grade examples exist aplenty and they don't even know we exist.

Which was my last point. GOOD ideas don't NEED marketing.... Ever seen a commercial or ad for twitter or youtube? Their value prop is very clear. get an audience. Get paid. And they were tiny once too, so we can't blame it on being "new" as a platform either, we're half those systems age here overall. (aside from the forkening, steem/hive blur together enough to fit this context)

Because if we really had a value prop, we'd have the audience and they'd want to be in front of it. But the value prop being pitched doesn't match the experience upon arrival.

I dunno man, maybe I'm not as articulate about this as I could be. But something ain't right.