Awesome to see someone addressing the real concerns and threats to the steemit platform. I go back and forth on how much I believe in the future of this project. I'm considering an investment on the next large pullback, but don't know how long term it will be due to the considerable risks outlined here. Personally, Steemit can be enjoyable, but just seems to be more luck based and self-serving oriented than I had previously thought. It's become increasingly more difficult to put hours of thoughtful research into something that may net me a few bucks when I could use that time researching stocks, coins and reading useful information. Either way it's a fun idea and I can see why others do get so fired up about it. I just feel like the problems that do need fixing might not get addressed. Who knows though, hopefully, I'm wrong and all the spam and exclusive self-voting gets cleaned up.