I feel like onboarding new users into the waiting jaws of a whale with a bot army which exists for the sole purpose of destroying accounts of people with different opinions is.... problematic.
Imagine a self-proclaimed whale crusader against "bad actors" with the initials BS who single handedly gives this entire platform more bad PR (through his posting and voting/flagging) than all OTHER bad actors combined... how ironic. It doesn't take new users long to get exposed to this toxicity.
EVERYONE who's been using Steemit for a while knows who this is. THIS is what needs to be addressed to improve the "environment" for new users to arrive... ...and stay (which will in turn attract actual investors and increased stake).
Yep.
Most important comment of all time. This is the elephant in the room. It is like we are all in the story of the 'Emporers new clothes". He proclaims he is wearing the finest royal clothes, and the people go along with it. Instead of addressing what any moron can clearly see.
We can all pretend things are not working because the flag button should be a down pointing arrow, or because we need the little "beta" symbol deleted, or any other bullshit reason. But at the end of the day. No one has ever better articulated the real problem here, thank you my friend.
Cheers
Many bothans died to deliver this message. :(