Whenever I think about these Tribes I see **huge** potential! We can create so many things with this implementation! 

Thank you for your answer. I agree that the community and the incentive given by this community increase value. 

The question is if it can be maintained over a longer period of time and abusers can be fend off faster than they appear. The abusers are one of the major threats to value. We see it on Steem with the vote farms that drain every little cent out of it. Most see only bidbots as the evil, but if we take a closer look most of the bid bots delegators increase their stake in comparison to the low cent drainer as they are many and fly under the radar. The tokens issuer need to fight them as well.

As a disclosure, I see them bringing value and can help increase the Steem worth. 

Thank you again for taking the time for a thorough reply. I will try to do from time to time some posts that engage idea generation.

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They will surely add value. If SMT’s got released, it will be a revolutionary change for steemit.

I for one am a bit excited to see communities grow. It can help you filter your own feed by your interests..

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Greetings appreciated @whatsup.

First of all I apologize for this late message, but the theme raised in this post completely captures my attention.

Many of the points raised by you had already been considered by me and I fully share your opinion.
Especially in the advantage that these new tokens and tribes give us when creating specialized content.
The idea of ​​attracting new users combined with the idea of ​​attracting investors seems to me to be the best application we can give to the creation of tribes, especially since the incorporation of new participants is the key needed to maintain the inflationary economy of the Steem blockchain.

Ps:
Since you seem to have some decent knowledge and experience, would you mind if I ask you to share your own opinion on my latest publication:
"DID OUR" WORLD LEADERS "JUST PUSH GLOBAL RECESSION AWAY from our doorsteps?"
https://www.steemleo.com/economy/@crypto.piotr/did-our-world-leaders-just-push-global-recession-away-from-our-doorsteps

I would appreciate it greately.

Yours
Piotr

> If you start a token that is based on Investing like in the case for SteemLeo, the users don't have to filter through cat picture to enjoy the site and engage with their topic of choice.

Would you be surprised if I told you that a large % of users are either trying to milk LEO tokens while their posts have absolutely nothing to do with investing - economics etc, or they are just bored of reading the basic guidelines of Steemleo community and use that tag anyway...?

And my guess is that it's happening everywhere...under every tag...but apart from palnet / neoxian and a couple of other tags most communities want their tag to be used wisely... 

Im not a tech head, but how long is it until we have AI infulencing moderation on high scales to be used on here?

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It is good for his tribe to define their niche and audience because this will leads to improve community platform of like-minded persons to interact and learn from each other @whatsup

To me these new communities are very valuable, especially the ones I'm writing for.

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Complety agree!
Like in any other theme, some projects will have success some not, poeple will decide.
Tribes and communities so far are taking activity and enthusiasm to Steem.

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It's an interesting dynamic.  I think the value of the tokens will be determined by the curation strategies of the high-rollers for each token.  It's interesting to think that a Steem post could be flagged to oblivion, but still have high value via one or more steem-engine tokens, so it might defang some of the Steem flag-warriors a little, or at least make the game more expensive.  OTOH, it also creates new avenues for spammers and plagiarists.

It also changes the strategic and tactical decisions that Steem voters might want to make.  I'm definitely curious to watch it all play out.  In the end, I think along the same line as you, anything that brings eyeballs adds value, and I think these tokens will bring eyeballs.

Steem all the way baby!

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not everything can be home runs. It would be boring and we'd never learn anything. Somethings need to fail for there to be success

Maybe one day

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I'm seeing posts with at least 3 tags for these 'tribes' and more tokens are appearing all the time. It's all getting a bit crazy. I see some good in that on the different sites there is a chance that trending will actually be relevant as it is harder to game it, but of course people will try to abuse the system. If they are not moderated then the value goes down.

It most certainly does add value, incredible value.

The biggest thing it does is it spreads out influence.

Without the different tokens, each community would still be determined by the SP holdings meaning a Steem whale is a whale in every community.  Now, that is not the case.

@whatsup,
Yeah definitely it's adding a value to STEEM and I wish people might start focusing on real businesses that might add token features with it as well!

Cheers~

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