>The reward pool is going to be drained every day any way, and if the Steemit population were to double over night.... Or perhaps half of the registered accounts actually made a post...
What ya gonna do then, ban new accounts ?

The last time we had a boom in new users the price boomed.  For some time people were raking in thousands of dollars from posting.  New users is what we want to help improve the price of steem as this increases demand for steem.  Steemsports discourages that by discouraging competition.

>Then someone discovered uploading porn would get a lot of attention lol..

I have no problem with porn doing well as long as people are not upvoting it in order to get a penny back from the post.  That incentivises people to upvote it for the wrong reasons.  But if they are voting for it because they want to reward somebody for putting it on the platform and encourage others to do the same, that is fine.  That will encourage growth.  We can still compete with that.