I think back to some of the early days on the *"old"* chain where there *was* engagement and one of the fairly solid ways for largely invisible newcomers was to simply cruise around and *authentically engage* and when you were patient, you could not only build your account because you frequently earned a small reward from an upvote, but people *saw* you engage on higher profile posts... and it all fed on itself.

Of course, this was happening within a nascent culture of upvoting *worthy* comments before that all went down the tubes of greed. And that seems to be the eternal challenge... the *idealists* seem unable to persevere in the face of the *greedy* over time. So these experiments like VYB are very hopeful, to me.

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