There is only one real solution. Remove all STEEM rewards and move the "Proof of Brain" completely to SMT's or other second layer solutions like the Steem Engine tribes. Only this will end all the Drama.
For example, nobody cares who is on trending in "Splinterlands" or "Palnet" or other tribes. It's just interesting inside the tribe.
I know you are in favour of that.
The problem which I see is where the value of all these (or at least some) SMTs would come from?
In case the SMT rewards had no real value, then I wonder what the motivation for the average user could be to change for example from facebook to STEEM?
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I came here first because of "Censorship-Resistance". Maybe Hive will go full censorship-resistent and will skip all rewards because they will have no funds, and Steem goes to content rewarding for cat photo posts, but everybody knows they will censor non-cat content.
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Yes, of course there can be several motives why to join a blockchain based social media platform.
Here I was only considering the topic from the perspective of what would contribute to or delay/prevent mass adoption of STEEM and the possibility to earn money there.
HIVE has its fascinating aspects, but I dislike the behavior of part of its leaders ... So I cannot do much more than waiting and see how things will develop on both sides of the big rift.
Maybe, as you said, both networks will occupy different niches of the crypto universe, aiming for different target audiences and thus will coexist in future.
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Would be very cool if the could coexist peaceful.
Let's hope for this !
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In the end for me is the question if downvoting content whom you don't like (I mean not something what is against law or other things like discussed in this post) is not similiar with censorship or at least close to them. And to let people not write something (even not in their own blog) cause they have not enough ressource credits is also near to censorship.
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Very good point !
If he can write at facebook as much as he want and at steem he is strongly limited cause of resource credits and he has even no change (except to put money in the system) to change this when he cannot earn rewards to increase his steempower.
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Not gonna work, Whaleshares did that exact same thing and well... No downvotes, No reward pool, some type of tribes called pods and other things that were added on.
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Nobody cares about "Pods". Censorship-resistence is the USP for the chains, the rewarding is just overkill and leads to all the drama. Skip the rewards and focus on censorship-resistence. Make one thing excellent, instead of making 2 things only a little bit ...
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No, I agree with you. Can you imagine a true censorship-resistence platform, governments would 💩 themselfs.
Now that would be a true cryptocurrency revolution!!
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The question is, if STEEM would attract enough users from other platforms without a rewards pool?
Why should they join STEEM as long as all their relatives and friends are using for example facebook?
The ideal of censorship resistant is great, but alone not enough to attract the masses, because, unfortunately(!), many (most) poeple don't care about it.
OK, one option would be of course not to care about mass adoption and the monetary value of STEEM and just focus on non-material blockchain values ...
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