It would be interesting if people could buy ads for the side areas of the browser that are largely empty now, and have any such ad be done by purchasing with steem or sbd.    Then perhaps have that payment be recycled back into the reward pool.   This way you could have the normal inflationary reward pool + the additions to that pool from ads.   This way everyone in the community would see benefit from ads, and the reward pool would not be 100% inflationary as it currently is.

Ads make it a Marketing platform ala Faceboo and Twitte. And if it's no different than those two, then what makes Steemit different?

Remove bots, and all that STEEM is back in the pool for creators.

just a thought.

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>Steemit, Inc. currently wants to remove the barrier to entry for new users and they see ads as a barrier to entry.
If steemit.com starts monetizing by ads, anybody could set up steemit2.com without ads and display the same content.

there is a third reason.  ads just don't make that much money unless youre a huge website.

As an example, i think i read once that 2p2 made about 300 a month from their banner advertising, and theyre a huge (if specialized) forum  with a  top 5 search engine exposures.  

I agree with you about the speculative nature of the project being troubling (and, imo ultimately unsustainable) but ad revenue is simply not a viable solution.

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