Heh
'Come promote on our platform where we pay you to advertise. In fact, the more you bid, the more money you actually make promoting your post once it pays out! Oh and on the other end, sellers you can expect returns comparable to fully self voting, but unlike self voting, delegating to us actually adds value because you're providing much needed utility to the ecosystem. And we only take a small liaison fee.'
You mean these brilliant entrepreneurs and developers who've ascended into top leadership positions over the past year or two almost as fast as Steem price has dropped weren't doing us a favor? That there was a price to be paid all along? That it took a little long to take the first sensible attempt at reforming the broken economy that enabled this? How dare you!
And people thought I was crazy when I had said, "If you buy $10 and place it next to every post, that $10 becomes the new $0.00 and the value of the token will reflect that." That $10 wasn't advertising, all of those folks would just blend in with the rest. Meanwhile, you add up all those fake "promoted" posts, thousands of posts — majority of those people earned pennies to the dollar while a small handful of accounts laughed their way to the bank. And in reality, it was far more than $10 per post. I bet as write this, some shit posting spammer handed another $20 over to their masters hoping to get famous playing a rigged slot machine that never pays out.
It took far too long to correct mistakes, indeed. Some of us knew within the first month it would be a disaster.