I haven't visited that site in ages, it's really good. @roelandp has some great ideas.
The incentives are certainly there to get a return on investment, but I am not so sure there are great shorter term incentives for promoting development of the platform.
money for some, is again ahead of prosperity and abundance for all.
I am going to work through some of the current incentives and limitations of the current payout structure, hopefully to stimulate some discussion. I hear little discussion, and there is even less experimentation with the incentive structures on steem. Now is the time to do that, not when we have millions of users.
Yes I agree with regards of getting to grips, and perhaps a foothold in the 'market' with regards to incentives/beneficiaries.
@starkerz mentions the lack of funding for @steem-ambassador, it seems a no brainer for Steem inc to give a little out to this one.
That goes without saying. I am yet to hear a plan for Steemit Inc's stake. Of course they don't have to tell us and they can do as they wish with it but hundreds of millions of dollars of stake could go a long way to promote and incubate projects on the platform.
If we assume their stake is passive, the other active delegators may be persuaded to spread their delegation.
The problem for them at the moment is they get an income from delegation which can pay the bills but is there any way to share, supporting the platform and paying the bills, or have the large stake holders just given up on the platform altogether and decided to take their money while they can?
I am a bit cynical myself.
It would be nice to see the likes of dtube perhaps offering stake to a marketing team like @steem-ambassador, who could promote them whilst they seek new accounts. A kind of, join steem and vlog or ulog your introduction post.
As far as the last point, it would not be unreasonable to suggest STEEM has been traded out in recent months to other tokens seeking to venture into the same space - diversification is a reasonable investment strategy imo.