Well, you carry a very large stick (you have access to hundreds of thousands of STEEM to retaliate against anyone who messes with you), so your experiences of not being randomly harassed often aren't typical. Most of us don't have that very large stick keeping others polite around us.
"Steem uses he SBD value to calculate that number and since SBD is less than a dollar, and it inputs it as if it WERE at a dollar, those two numbers are skewed."
I think it's just Steemit, not all of Steem. It's a Steemit Wallet problem. Other front ends don't do these shenanigans.
Ohhhhhhhhh, so $1000 is the amount my 5000 Steem WOULD be worth, if I converted it into SBD, and if SBD was worth 50% more than it is?
In that case, I have a way to make that $1000 number even larger!
Let's make it another 50% larger by counting what it WOULD be worth, if I converted it to New Zealand Dollars, and if NZDollars were worth the same as USDollars!
So we could change everyone's Wallet to read $1500 instead of $1000, $90 instead of $60, and so on! If they ask, just say that's what it would be worth if things were different. It's not dishonest, it's not creepy, it's not insulting..... it's just "skewed"!
Honestly though, why did Steemit change from reporting the real USD value, to a phoney USD value? My Steem is worth $1000 here but only $650 on all the other frontends.
If they're showing the value of the wallet in SBD, why does it say "based on an average value of Steem in US dollars"? Several months ago, when they changed how the number is calculated, why didn't they update the description to say "based on an average value of Steem in SBD"?
Might as well just change it to $1500 USD, or even $40000 USD. Just secretly change it to calculate based on the Vietnamese Dong, or the Japanese Yen, or Litecoin. Or let's go for Zimbabwe Dollars, and display it as a value of $3 million USD. Why not, it's just as real as the $1000 figure currently shown, right?
Skewed is such a friendly term for it... others would call it lying, or at the very best, incompetence. Not a good face to present to the world when trying to bring in new members. YouTube is shedding millions of users per week right now and I don't see a lot of new signups around here. Maybe we need to skew our numbers a bit more, heheh.