yeah it should just stay as it is , stick to the original steemit! =D

Good job @clayop
I like it ^_^
Perfect posts!!!

It should simply stay as it is. There is little to no point in changing it. If it's not broken, don't fix it.

Good way to look at it. Trying to force the link to $1 could be more harmful than beneficial. Usually when something is tethered to a currency it moves exactly equivalent to that said currency no?  So the only way to get this to happen would be the exchanged would have to be on board. I may be way wrong but just my two cents anyways.

Well said, I agree with your logic on the subject, while its annoying to see this happening all the time, does it really hurt anyone? Just us Zappl investors! ;] LOL JKJK

Imo Steemit is evolving everyday; if SBD is affected by Feed Premium, let's just hope we benefit enough in the Bull Market.

I believe. Always support your team.

I agree with you .. do not lower the price of SBD to $ 1, it just makes the market worse.
 Very good information. thanks for sharing..

Good post @clayop! I found it interesting for myself. Follow you

I agree. 

Monetary policies are solving problems only in the short-term.

I agree, adjusting things in one direction is not the same thing as adjusting them in the other direction due to the systemic risk one can introduce in a bear market. We need to think longer term.

That said, I do like exploring ideas (such as reverse conversions) to put pressure on speculators not to speculate on a pegged asset. I've been running an ecommerce platform for 10 years and trying to get merchants to enable BitPay or Coinbase since 2013. They are scared of fluctuating currencies or anything new they don't understand or can't rely on. If we could offer them 1 SBD = 1 USD, they might go a very long way toward global cryptocurrency adoption. That's a really cool thing. I'd like to see a solution to enable the peg without introducing systemic risk. bitUSD is doing well, so we know it can be done.

I just posted my witness post (@lukestokes.mhth) last night, so I'm getting much more interested in these discussions. My witness is currently not adjusting the feed price.

I disagree with this, however I do think that it's consistent with your general opposition to discounts.

I would push back on a couple points, though. For one, users who are converting are already losing money through the conversion process. And as I pointed out in one of my recent posts, the high price of SBD negatively impacts users who select to power up 100% of their rewards.

So it seems to me that the best way to reduce this harm is to get the SBD price down so that users don't have to have knowledge of the market prices of both tokens in order to avoid costing themselves money.

And as long as SBD is extremely high, it's essentially unusable. Merchants accepting SBD won't exist. Stability is the selling point of the currency, and if you can't buy some without the expectation of losing a third of your value, you wouldn't buy it for its utility. It would remain a speculative tool and not accomplish the goals it seeks.

What is the point to have SBD in the first place? If you want to live only within the  Steem ecosystem without using any other cryptocurrencies, then it is worth to keep SBD. However, you guys already have bitshares and bitUSD. Why not exchange steem with bitUSD or something stable tokens when needing a payment method to any merchants. I could not understand why you guys reinvented the wheel while you don't give up the old wheel. Steem is a blogging system, then just focus on that goal, and make it simpler for wider user bases. Don't make it complicated with steem, steem power, steem dollar and all weird calculations. I strongly suggest just giving up SBD entirely.

I love my SBD.
I keep or exchange them. 
Mainly stack them up

>High SBD price is bad only for those who buy SBD at above $1. I think they deserve it because the community's promise is 1 SBD = $1. They broke the promise due to speculative purposes and all the risks are theirs.

Its hard to argue with this.

Help me verify whether a witness is a pro-feedpremium or not.
I am recasting my votes to the witnesses.
https://steemit.com/sbd/@themanualbot/i-am-not-a-witness-but-i-am-concerned-about-pulling-down-sbd-price-toward-1usd-i-will-be-removing-my-votes-to-witnesses-that

It seems like in the long-term, getting SBD to peg more accurately to $1 (within accuracy of, say, 10 cents) is pretty important to facilitate certain kinds of transactions.

In the short term, if it's too destructive, it is not worth it. Your point #2, about the bear market, definitely has me worried.

nice...you deserve upvote and resteem...

Good job @clayob