I know the thread wasn't exactly about promotion but it just occurred to me that I never saw any Twitter user promoting Twitter or a Facebook user promoting Facebook. It's always the company who takes care of the Marketing. Allocates budget for promotions, develops marketing strategies and constantly evolves the UI to keep the users hooked by giving them a better user experience.

A common community member would never do it the right way considering he's not getting paid for it. Sc01 votes are not the payment specially when no author has a right to use his rewards for the past year or so.

Please forgive me, having no right to the rewards is the reason of massive powerdowns and corruption. It was bound to happen. I shared my concerns when clubs were introduced but nobody dare say anything because everyone was worried about the sc01 votes.

For instance, user A having 10k SP and 10k Steem in an external wallet and user B having 20k SP and nothing as such in external wallet. The price goes up or there's an emergency which requires funds. What will the users do? User A can utilize the rewards in external wallet and User B will have to power down, right? So what was better? Balanced power ups or vigorous power ups?

Power ups are necessary to build an independent and truly decentralized community but converting Steemit into something completely opposite is the biggest damage to the ecosystem.

I am strong advocate for writing with heart and not for rewards. But an author should have a right to his share of rewards.

We need good content? Just let the authors spend their rewards. Nothing in this world is free but Steemians are putting their hardwork and precious times on Steemit - for free. How long they will do it? One by one everyone will get tired and leave because it's not worth it. Or you should provide such an environment that users care less about rewards like in other social media.

Some people don't need rewards or are here truly for the sake of learning and blogging. I have been one of such user for whom rewards are actually a bonus and come second to content/blog. But I don't understand something rather a hypocrisy.

Why we want to make our accounts strong? Why we want our votes to be of higher value? Why we all want Steem's price to rise? Let's say, it rises then what? We are not going to spend the rewards. Steem will always stay locked in wallets. Then whether it be of zero value or of $10 , why do we care?

If we want users to stick, stop suffocating them with unrealistic rules. Let them breathe. Old Steemit didn't have clubs or burns yet it was better than present. In my opinion, clubs won't bring any change. They might have stablize Steem at $0.2 but it will stay here as long as people keep doing powerdowns after vigorous powers ups. Clubs have turned into a quickest way of collecting rewards only to leave when one has its fill.

You still want clubs and burns then why don't you burn or power up steemitblog's 5k SBD as a start or what about that 21 Million Steem? It would have been nice to see it utilized in new projects. Or is it ? Please enlighten if I'm unaware of something.

I am an old user and always had best interest at heart for Steemit. But I'm sure this comment will be taken as anything except constructive criticism and an army of sc01 worshippers will attack me. I know as CR I am supposed to obey Steemit team but it's also my duty to think beyond it that might help Steemit.

I didn't want to say it all because I was hopeful that Steemit will improve but I'm just tired now.

P.S. I won't mind if you unvote my CR report, I didn't like the vote percentage anyways. I also won't mind if you take back the delegation. It's not as pleasant to be a CR as I thought. It seems mending broken things is harder than creating new ones.