I feel that I should explain that comment a bit more so people understand the context.
The fundamental question that is being answered by cryptocurrency is “what drives value?” We see lots of projects rise and fall, often rapidly.
The ones that survive find a match between a group of people and a use or utility function. For those who want to get deep in the weeds, this proves the Austrian theory of subjective utility.
So how does that apply to talking point and the POINT token? The utility of talkingpoint.co is that it is a place where people can come together and discuss and argue political issues without fear of censorship. Once your data is on the blockchain nobody can take it away. This is unlike the current places people discuss politics like Facebook and twitter where you can get shadowbanned, banned outright, have your content deleted, and so on.
The engagement of actual people doing actual things is what creates value.
The POINT token is a proxy for that value created by you, me, and all of us together. It will gain significant and long lasting value if and when enough people come to see this virtual place as a thing worth having.
The current phase of the project is simply getting the word out. That’s why I am passing out upvotes like candy. Any engagement is to be rewarded. That’s why I’m posting things to twitter and reddit: to let people outside of the steem ecosystem know about this new tool they have available.
When that day comes that the community continues to grow without my and others direct promotion, then we will focus on other aspects of tokenomics.
Thank you for adding to the post. It is a very solid sounding project and looks like it is being lined up in a manner where it will take advantage of the growth that is ahead of Steem.
I think you are right. The fact that Facebook and YouTube is on the banning/censoring spree means that more are going to be aware of the value that blockchain provides i.e. their post or comments cannot be banned or taken down. Once it is posted to the blockchain, there it remains.