I had read one of your previous posts about how Steemit was a social media site, and how effectively we are the content providers should benefit as apposed to the Facebooks or Ubers of this world.
So to read at the start of this article that "Steemit isn't really a social network, It's a future virtual economic society." Caught me a little off guard.
On that basis i would ask you: do you think that increasing the size of the pie for increasing sake is necessarily a good thing?
Will this not just create a surge in short term interest, followed by a lot of new users having no idea what going on?
Providing a good product will generate interest without the need for recruiting?
I'd be interested in your view on this.
The intention of the first post you read was to get a few of my friends involved that were sitting on the sidelines. In that case I had to relate to them things they already understood, things like facebook and reddit. As I dug a little deeper into Steemit my understanding shifted - https://steemit.com/steemit/@wingz/instead-of-asking-where-the-money-comes-from-ask-why-it-s-even-there-in-the-first-place-digging-deeper-into-the-steem-economic
Increasing the pie for the sake of increasing it I think is the ultimate aim, of course doing it unnaturally will result in problems, these tend to be fixed pretty quickly.
There was one stage where introduce yourself posts became so popular that the entire trending list was filled with them. I really lost faith at that point, the next morning it shifted... 'overnight' haha
The evolution of ideas here is pretty incredible, if you watch for long enough.
I'd be happy to chat about this further on Steemit.Chat if you're interested.