Thank you very much for gathering this information @paulag! I really appreciate it. It confirms what I have seen through my interactions, and hopefully it will be seen by "management" to address the issues that the numbers reflect. I think it could be a constructive metric to use if I was in their position, so I hope they take it as something to be improved upon!
Again, great work and thank you for grabbing that information!
you are most welcome - I enjoyed the exercise and think its valuable information for Steemit
I am happy you did it so that I could see if the number bore out what I thought in my mind from anecdotal evidence... and I agree that it is super valuable to them (if they would just read it)... I did read something from @yabapmatt that said he thinks they never intended steemit to take off, they just wanted it to be a proof of concept site...And then there would be new sites that would utilize steem... If that's true, then it would explain why they don't seem to react to some of these issues. Anyways, thank you very much again for the great information, I really appreciate it Paula! :)
But any effective solution to retain new users would reduce the whales VEST while increasing plankton VEST. I don't see them doing that. @Steemit is the biggest whale with the highest VEST after all.
lol... funny @krischik! :)