I find it interesting that you are selling the idea of burning rewards - and your argument is so that a new user will gain the attention of a whale or two.. Or gain more followers...
So, burn rewards now, in the hopes of gaining more rewards at a later date..
Wouldn't it make more sense to keep building your SteemPower all along in order to have an account with more influence? The more SteemPower in your account, the easier it is to attract a following...
Why do you think SP attracts following? Imo good content does. If you have good content you need to get it somehow to the people - thus you need increased visibility. How does SP help with that? Unless you upvote yourself to the trending page, which would require a lot of SP.
I think it's pretty likely that both SP & Good Content attract a following. They both make a splash, and they're both hard to ignore. If someone creates / crafts / writes something really inspiring and gets a strong dialogue building -- they garner a lot of attention. The same can be said for someone with a lot of SP or some kind of 'celebrity' type status.
EDIT : now that I think about it for another minute, I had initially considered that what brought me to comment here was more related to Sp. However, I suppose it could be said that what actually brought me here, was that I noticed you had voted on a couple of my climbing related posts, so maybe that speaks more to your point than I thought.
Now I'm just confusing myself.
Look at how many followers the whale accounts have - even those accounts that do not post content have a large following.
It is human nature, people want to follow successful accounts. Rep score is one indicator of success, but SP is a far greater one.
Imo SP is not a good indicator of success, because only a few whales gained their SP through posting (I know just one, but I am not following whales very closely).
Did you earn the money I just allocated to you? Does it matter?
Who cares how someone gained their SP?
I understood successful accounts as successful steemian. In this sense it matters where and how you gained the SP.
If you meant successful in general, thank ok - people have different views on what success is. SP can be one of them.
Wow... I bet a lot of people want to become one of your friends... lol... You must be under so much pressure from people on Steemit... How do you handle the Pressure...??? Since you didn't comment, this is my way of thanking you for the up-vote you left me on my Latest Post...... I do like comments...
COIN MAN by @pocketechange A Penny may cost a Dollar...
Excelente, gracias por compartir esto, no era para mi pero me sirve de algo.
I use 100% upvotes on people's content, and I also will often do the same with the first few thoughtful comments on my content. People who receive a couple of $$ for a comment quite often follow you - and so do others in the comment thread - hoping to get that attention..
I think when you have a bigger vote, people are more interested in you... consciously or not. having more sp and "influence" gets you more attention... how it works is somewhat intangible, but I think it's real.
As a writer (without much SP) I would like to agree with you, @hr1, that good content is what attracts people (I've gained over 400 followers in over 2 months, here).
As with everything in life, some days are better than others, but I'd like to think that if one continues to put out quality work, over time, folks will notice and appreciate it.
Cheers, Yahia (Egyptian poet/thinker, and author of 7 books, to date)