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Skeptical is, in fact, in your name! I love seeing both sides to an argument and I love criticism as it points out the flaws that can be patched up and improved.

“Actually, I really hope that Steem Leo is successful, tag abuse stops, and the investing scene on Steem become less of a scammer's haven. I wamt to see Steem.Leo as somewhere people can go to get non-biased information and opinions.”

Our ambition is to create such a community. A community about investing, not about Steem.

Sure Steem is the backbone. Sure people are going to obviously dominate the platform with “Steem talk” in the beginning. Our ambition, however, stems far beyond Steem and even crypto. We want to be THE platform for investors. With that in mind, the token distribution/high inflation rate may make more sense as we try to distribute far and wide.

Our plan is to get real investing content creators from outside of Steem. We’ll entice them with rewards, bounties, etc. That’s also why you’ll see us power up the vast majority of STEEM we can get our hands on - as a tool for building this community. 

I appreciate your skepticism and hope you keep it coming. We will look to these types of posts as a method for improvement. 

A note about tag abuse — we have created a channel in the discord for identifying tag abuse on Steemleo and have setup an account specifically for flagging such kinds of abuse in the community. We’ll be fighting the battle, but we hope to clean up the tag situation now and in the future. 

Thank you for your input, I look forward to building a massive investment community here on Steem. 🧡

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I hope we can build a 2-sided community that doesn't just devolve into circle jerking "Steem is great" articles too. I've been looking for a place to exchange investment ideas for a while (ever since they put most of Seeking Alpha behind a paywall actually). Let's hope SteemLeo can do it!

I liked your clown dance, he he. 

But on a serious note; great post.

“I'll get it the old fashioned way by begging for upvotes and dancing like a clown for the whales.”  

Hahaha that is gold right there.  

I have high hopes and have like @khaleelkazi quite a while. I hope I can delegate staked Leo to my favourite technical analysts. 

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Airdropping these tokens to non-professionals who happened to stake pal in hopes of establishing an investment discussion community is an amateur mistake. Steemleo created whales who have authority due to their token holdings, however, their investment knowledge is probably low to nil which is average for the general population. I can see this method of distributing stakes as being problematic in the future.

Most people posting with the #investing #money #finance and now #steemleo tag are not investment professionals.  If they are, they need to be following rules or they risk much more than just a downvote, they could lose their licensing.

>Investment professionals need to be very careful about what they blog, tweet, or post on Facebook, because it could be interpreted as investment advice, which in turn could raise issues of suitability, diligence, and prudence. In addition, investment professionals must be careful not to make statements that could be perceived as false or misleading. 

[source](https://blogs.cfainstitute.org/investor/2012/07/26/ethics-and-social-media-4-things-investment-professionals-and-firms-should-think-about-before-using-social-media/)

If someone isn't an investment professional, you should be wary of their investment advice. @steem.leo needs to take ethics seriously or they are just another pump and dump scheme hiding behind a thin veil of 'fostering a community.' 

I have a feeling this is going to be an utter failure. Tokens should have been given to people who can prove they are investment professionals or who have a track record with investing, not people who just steemed, staked pal and use steemleo as one of their many tags.

I think steemleo is looking for posts exactly like yours!  Well, maybe mixed in with a few more positively leaning articles!  I think the goal is to create niche communities, and thereby have a better way to market to outsiders (for ads and such!) that there is a target group, based on some affinity within the Steemit platform.

As for the s___ posts.  You know some folks gotta' try!  I think weed cash network has been very successful in "kabashing" tag abuse from early on!  I think steemleo will do the same!

Howdy sir abitcoinskeptic! lol.."dancing like a clown for the whales" oh man, that's a great line. I agree, we have to hope it succeeds and conducts itself professionally and wait and see. I wonder what this place will look like in a year from now, things are happening fast! This is a great review post, well done sir.

I really think for an investment discussion platform, there will need to be stricter or tighter rules on the type of posts that are accepted because this is people's money everyone will be talking about. Not a cat doing something stupid. You can't just post any old nonsense and then use the "disclaimer DYOR, not financial advice". Why post it then? 

I won't be posting any stuff about crypto and investments so probably won't use the platform but I hope they do things right and have some "quality review" procedures in place. That's my 2 cents (literally).

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Thanks for bringing up those thoughts and observations of yours. Various sources of info are always good to have. But it's true a lot of us start feeling as investors here and we're just hyped. Amateurish is true. I haven't studied finances for even a day. I just read some articles and I find them interesting. Funny, but to me they are.

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> ... Sadly, I sold my Pal airdrop so I didn't get Leo.


I stoped reading after I saw this. 
This explains everything.

No more comments.

I've asked myself a lot of the same questions. I guess all we can do is wait and see how this will turn out. It will definitely not the last community/clone that will pop up...

Even through it is not in our cluture in Africe is not investing, we really have to pay attention to all ideas and also teach our selves some thing new. That is the reason why steemleo has come. We mst pay more and more attention to what people are writing on steemleo. The biggist investment we have is really time. I we use it well we shl be there thanks