Steem is a blockchain supporting social interaction. In the three years I’ve been here I’ve had a number of negative social interactions with you personally. I like many of our ideas, just not how you express them or how you’ve treated people in the past you’ve disagreed with (from my perspective). If you acted in a more socially positive way, I think you’d get more support as a witness. I was surprised and grateful not to see any direct personal attacks in your comment here.

I’m not trying to be a dick pointing this out, I’m just giving my perspective. I hope it’s well received.

And yes, the Steemit leadership hasn’t really put a focus on improving the economics of STEEM or on improving Steemit.com. Hopefully the SPS will create a structure for the community to move things forward directly. Maybe we can start with people using the community GitHub repo instead of the Steemit, Inc one.

As for the linear curve, I do think it could have worked if more people downvoted and more people cared about fairness than greed. The previous curve was kind of ridiculous with thousand dollar posts on one hand and quality posts getting pennies. I think iteration, change, and experimentation is good. Let’s do it quicker next time.