RCs help reduce spambots and ultimately makes people want to buy steem and powerup. Think of it as gasoline for every user's car. in the past, every steemit account used gasoline from a central reserve. even though it is renewable, spambots used more of it. but now, every user will need SP to interact more. i think it was done to make people buy steem and power up rather than anything else.

Anyways, it's pretty much BS to normal users like you and I and i think the hype at the time was totally unnecessary. I find the idea of having to delegate SP to an invitee's account before it becomes useful very stressful. And i find it even more stressful when i have to discuss it, even though it makes the platform a bit better. I just want to blog and engage with contents that interest me.

>Those with enough stake can now create a new account per day. They should then have enough stake to delegate enough (25-50 SPs) that the new user should be able to navigate the site.

I posted once, upvoted 2 times ,and commented twice (with about 25sp in an unused account).

Then I could do nothing else until my rc's had powered up - next day.
That is not a model to make a growing social media platform...


>We should end up with quality users instead of spammers with hundreds of free accounts this way, in my opinion.

shoulda, woulda, coulda - new users will _go away_ and not return if they can't use a social media platform without being penalized fo ruseing...a social media platform....
(I would have, if this was my _first experience_. I would have gone to Minds or something...)

When intellectual hubris meets human behavior, and then fights the users expectations by penalizing them,  only one will ...
...in my opinion.