I love the sentiment I agree with you on pretty much the whole post. I love the valuation (because I want more at this price--as much as I can get that isn't nailed down actually, lol). The bringing of value of what steemit can be is really just now starting to happen in my opinion with all the new sick games, dapps, all of this stuff is unbelievable. I feel the downvote needs to cost twice the voting of power of what an upvote of the same percentage of one's voting power costs. If people are being so 'noble' with their downvote they should have no problem spending that much more rather than finding things they do want and reward those. I also feel there should be a mandate in voting up or down that account needs an existing post, or comment less than say 5-6 days old so that there could be reprisal for flippant downvoting behavior so that the 'human user' with their offended sensibilities of high brow content like theirs can show us all how it's done.

You are very right the hype wave is what brought a lot of people here. Like Richard Heart says (to paraphrase) so often... "Nobody gives an expletive about this, or nobody gives a flying expletive about that, they care about if the price is expletive -ing going up or down and how much." I think place is a dynamite keg waiting to go off when/if all the new developments on the platform can ever be brought to the public. And at the time of this comment we now at right about 5 satoshis.

I also think with the opening up of ideas and listening more to the public that can only help in getting a better feel to what people are feeling, expecting, and wanting day to day and longer term. I have wrote this same post a few times (minus the high level of polish and higher end usage of the proper vocabulary for all things blockchain, of course) and I think that this is just the beginning of the history change in economics that is crypto and hopefully steemit does not get lost in the shuffle because it certainly does not deserve to in my opinion.