it's my view the feeling of excitement or depression relating to Steemit correlates very closely to if the price is rising or falling

And that is exactly what I was discussing with other witnesses. We have a problem separating the crypto and market price aspect from the social media side. We need to define ourselves now before we turn into another bitcointalk thread. If Steemit is not a successful social media platform, it will not be a successful blockchain project. Do I think we have failed? no not at all, I think it's one of the most successful projects, but we are jumping hurdles, and while doing that we should not leave anyone who falls behind, we should extend them a hand and pull them with us. We need to remember we are a community of early adopters, and we are the support steemit is built on, when your support is weakening because of price decline, we need to remind ourselves that we just started the race, it's too early to judge. I am willing to bet anything, before steemit gets out of beta, there will be a lot of changes and improvements. But to get there we need to listen to everyone and take notes.