Agree with you. If I were to post a public thread on a centralized forum aimed at convincing people to come use a decentralized forum with a reward system for content creation/curation, my thread would likely be locked and/or I would get banned.

@jonnybitcoin 's idea not only does that, but takes money directly out of steem. This would be more akin to me poaching affiliates from a centralized site. For instance say a cooking forum makes some form of revenue by having users sign up for particular meal services such as blue apron, but I posted a thread asking users to sign up through me for a different food service. How long before a forum moderator axes my thread? Don't take advantage of a censor-less blockchain site in its infancy by pulling money out of steem to fund something else.

curious, did you downvote his thread?