Thanks for pinging me about the edit.
Would you risk the goodwill of 1.4 million fans before running a trial run to a smaller audience first? To me, that's completely reasonable. As I said, it's the long term game that will matter here. Some people might ignore steemit content the first 10 or so times, but if it's done consistently, that will change things.
I won't write that off entirely. I'm willing to be convinced that my assumptions were misplaced. If it turns out that I'm way off base here, I'll be very glad indeed.