I think the free accounts and the premium accounts is a good idea. I like that being implemented for sure.

But how do you onboard the masses? You didn't talk about that. Can we gather a large amount of liquidity and roll out a big PR Event? Just talking about it doesn't help onboarding the masses. 

What do you guys think of SE and the tribes? I would like to hear your opinion. 

Sounds good to us.
BTW like that you tagged #themasses, lol

So to be clear, you are NOT going to advertise to the masses...? 
How the fuck will they find out about Steem? Word of mouth? That got us to #70 on coinmarketcap. WTF... Why do you refuse to advertise??

I am probably not the first one to be thinking this but what exactly will be the difference between SMTs and Steem Engine and the new communities popping up like Leo, geek and creativecoin with these new communities?
Will these all complement each other or all come together as one?

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I made this original image back in April 2017. Not much progress has been made, it seems...neither with messaging nor implementation. 

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https://steemit.com/special-report/@ats-david/special-report-another-marketing-post-released-by-steemit-inc

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>We want to solve this problem and, as the team that released the base protocol and maintains the most used Steem-powered interface, we have the most to gain by doing so.

You want to solve this problem, but you not only refuse to improve your actual interface - which is what most "normies" (the masses) care about - you also make investment into the platform far too risky and essentially useless. You dilute stakeholder influence over the reward pool by delegating massive amounts of your "ninja-mine" while simultaneously continuing your programmatic selling of STEEM tokens at market prices. Not to mention the fact that you delivered a plethora of poorly rationalized code changes that destroyed both the economic incentives and the social elements of this platform. 

You're not going to onboard users while making your main selling point *"Get paid to blog!"* when the "payments" are most frequently on the decline. 

Social media is primarily about the social experience of users. They don't need money to interact. The money is the big bonus. It's what gives you an advantage over other sites **_if the rest of the playing field was somewhat equal._** 

It is not. 

Steemit.com (and the other Steem interfaces) offers very little to the masses. Communities won't matter much if the rest of the site is difficult and/or unpleasant to use and look at. Tokenization (SMTs!!!) won't matter much if nobody likes the site and the "popular" content. 

So, how are you going to onboard masses with the main enticement being communities and scary crypto tokens? Facebook has groups. They work pretty well for most FB users. Same with Reddit. Same with most other popular sites. People use those and are happy...and they make no money at all. 

How do you plan to compete with those interfaces when you have an aesthetically and socially inferior product? How can you entice people to come for the money when you're doing your best to make the token worthless and investment pointless?

How can you expect people to believe you about delivering on your promises when you have continually broken promises and missed delivery dates for three years? Communities have been talked about since the winter of 2016/2017 with a delivery date in 2017. SMTs have been talked about since at least September 2017 with a delivery date "sometime in 2018." We're now over half-way through 2019 and we still have neither. 

You ask for feedback and suggestions...but you mostly ignore actual feedback and suggestions unless it's something you already planned on doing or unless it's blowing smoke up your asses about how wonderful you are. 

**_Maybe start by actually addressing criticism so that the criticism doesn't go unanswered or even_** **uncorrected** **_for years on end. Unless, of course, the criticism is spot-on and you have no adequate response to it._**

I hope the SMT hardfork will be just that, only about the SMT's. Piling on of more and more *"aside, nice to have"*, things would not be a good idea. Keep it simple, keep it about the SMT's when it is time.

Take note of how long the witnesses have had HF21, (over a month now), and note how much progress has been made on an adopt or not choice. To many divergent things to test, so for SMT hardfork *Keep it simple* and only about ***SMT's***

More like waterboarding the users who still are here... I do recall saying 11 months ago HF20 and RC was going to KILL steem ;) seems many steemians now agree with me despite COUGH COUGH ned flagging me and trying to silence anyone who disagreed with the INSANE idea of forcing DAPP devs to PAY for their users to get accounts while the early adopters (ned and steemit staff) have millions of steem for free and earn insane amounts compared to the rest of us while having basically full control of the witnesses who then adopt their insane new policies and hard forks... 

Just to be clear I said this 10 months ago ;)
https://steemit.com/steem/@bigdeej/is-steem-dead-i-think-it-may-be-getting-ready-to-power-down-if-this-continues

So you can't say I didn't warn you all!

How do *communities* reduce unwarranted flagging? As long as upvotes involve STEEM inflation I would imagine that the flagging continues. Sure, SMTs might make it less obvious, but nothing prevents someone else from using a general block explorer to identify content they dislike and flag it, regardless what community it is. 

The only way for flagging to be reduced would be if people could not see posts from certain communities. Is that happening, and if so how? If everything is openly on the blockchain I can't see how it actually gets reduced or eliminated.

GodSpeed ! :) 💙

May the Steem ♨ Force B ...............

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Games are the only reason I came back to steemit and stayed. If not for steem monsters I wouldn't bother with the social media aspect. Develop games and have communities built around them and you will see the numbers grow. If you focus solely on social media then you already lost the war. That battleship sailed 16 months ago.

I have been really, really wanting to get more people to Steemit and form a community for over two years now. The single reason I have not been able to do so is because the Communities feature hasn't been available. If I bring someone here, they have no reason to stay. Whereas if they could hop on a Community section where there are other people gathered around the same interest, that would give them a reason to participate and keep them coming here. There is no reason for them to be here otherwise.

Communities is the one single most important feature. I think much more important than everything else that was done over the last 2+ years. 

You don't need to do marketing. Every single one of your users will be your marketer. They will advertise the platform, form their communities, bring over their friends and existing communities. In fact, **they can't wait to do that.** But right now they can't do it because there is no point bringing in more people if there is nothing for them to do here.

There are a lot of fundamental mistakes being made in regards to the sequence in which things are developed. New technologies go through an adoption curve, where at the start of the curve you have early adopters. We are still there. This means things like easy onboarding are not a priority at all at this time. Early adopters like products that require more skill to figure out, they like it when the product is not polished, when it is still not ready for the masses. That gives them a chance to adopt it before the masses. But without Communities, there is only one big ocean of people and posts, so the "social media" part cannot really happen. So my suggestion to all entrepreneurs on this blockchain is: read the book The Four Steps to the Epiphany in order to understand more about developing your product from an idea to a massive business.