Nobody trusts our community because it is simply an elaborate gambling scheme no different than the real world.

Hmm, then perhaps there's no way around it.

In an ideal world, people wouldn't be lazy, or greedy, or capable of rationalizing away their back-stabbing of loyal and trustworthy people in order to fulfill their desires, but that's not reality. In the privacy of our own minds, we aren't as pure and innocent as we like to lead people on to believe.

Furthermore, let's face it, we're addicted to free, especially free money. Why wouldn't we be? Why wouldn't free giveaways of money draw in huge crowds? Of course it would. Of course it does.

I'll admit it, I prefer to have things handed to me. I prefer to take on little or no risk. I prefer to feel comfortable and secure, like I don't have to put anything on the line, or out in the open, for that matter. I prefer these things, which is why I'm drawn to these SP distribution blogs, which is also why Steemsports gets so much action (attention).

My suggestion is that we not kill the cash-cow, even if it pisses off the minority of people who're willing to put out a lot of energy to compete for their stake. At the risk of coming across as callous, I'll say it anyways: let the whiners leave if they can't accept the collective voice of the market, because the money lies in the majority, not the minority.

Stick with the thing that appeals to the bigger crowd, which may perhaps be the less (intellectually/ emotionally) evolved crowd, but that's where the money lies; that's the consumer market which is the steam to the capitalistic engine; that's where we, as a community, make our money on this platform, IMO...and I could be wrong, but it seems to me to follow logic.

Take it for what it's worth (two cents?).