As a daily Enterprise member, this math makes sense to me because it is fair to everyone ... even Enterprise members have no guarantee of having emails verified every day, and for those posting less often, 1,000LN cuts down on the risk of not having enough LN in hand to maintain or seek an upgrade.
For new members who come in free, this is super important ... assuming 120-150 LN per verified post, it would take as many as eight weeks of posting to afford an upgrade even at 1,000LN, and buying for numbers higher than that does not make good mathematical sense. In Hive terms, at around 7,000LN, that's a good 140 Hive. That's a lot when each verified mail is worth about 3 Hive. In USD terms, when users are making only $1.80 per mail that they can only access in ten weeks, it's a lot to ask them to come up with $30-80 every thirty days from the gate. 1,000 LN is still steep, but I think if people see the value, new users as well as established users can work with that.
The other thing that we could do: at 1,000 Hive, those who are team leaders and those of us who have higher balances can build strong teams by sharing our wealth, helping newer members with the cost of the upgrade as they learn what it takes to be verified consistently. That could create a virtuous circle of re-circulation.
@amirtheawesome1 brought forward this idea some weeks ago, and I'm more than happy to sponsor this in case of a set amount and active members that have shown to be valuable members. I already have a few of the downline that would make perfect candidates for this.
I agree with this & think it's a great idea. It would undoubtedly incentivize some of us to help people in our teams. I've already helped one of my team members upgrade, twice now. Now it wasn't the enterprise membership but still. I paid for it out of my own pocket (with Hive), and I'd definitely be more inclined to help more of my team members upgrade if it was 1000 Listnerds for Enterprise.
Yes, it would be great to help out team members. Let's hope they will implement it so that a few newbies can also experience the upgraded membership themselves.
!CTP