These are the kind of use cases that need to be marketed for the good of the platform. Not saying "get paid for your content" because anyone can write dross but earn while you learn has a different ring to it.

Skill development is something that is overlooked and I have noticed a substantial increase in my writing skills since being on steem from the first atrocious blog lol.

With hf21 and the hope that it will change behaviours, to me, is like trying to put a bit of selotape over a leak in the ceiling... It may hold for a short while but the water will find a way around and cause a bigger leak and bits of the ceiling will fall down.

I think the tribes and steem engine should give a kick up the arse to steemit and if it is driving value away from steem then they need to do something about it. However I don't think steem engine is the reason for the dwindling userbase and constant downward movement of Steem price over the last 15 months.

This decentralisation doesn't really work, you need a creator of something for something to happen and the rest will follow. Steemit need to start grabbing the bull by the horns because that bull is wrecking the China shop and has done ever since bid bots were introduced.

I'm not a tech whiz but I've been a user and content creator on this platform for 17 months and it does not take a genius to work out why people leave.

Anyway, can't wait to have my rewards slashed on steem with hf21, that's why I think the steem-engine is going to offset the hours of work Creatives put in because it's another way to earn without having to join another platform.

I'll stop rambling now.

Great post, well done on surviving 2 steem years, probably felt like 20 lol

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