Proposed changes have no merit. The existing system is good enough. Pls consider that anybody who has ability to write good content can buy the visibility for free from bid-bots as it is paid back in a week time. No other platform provide this opportunity to however great content creator one is.
Bid-bots are the best thing on the platform.
And flags are the worsts things and need to go. We need to come out of the mentality that my content and views are good than of others.
No one would follow a user who does not have any meaningful thing to say to his followers thereby discouraged to either improve or rest in peace.
Let us come out of policing mentality.
And with SMT all who thinks differently can design their own reward schemes to experiment. If any of that is more successful then we all will follow and support that driven by simple economics for individual and group.
So all in all no need to change.
only if someone (@dan i see you) wasn't taking note of this shit show and planning on milking the experience to build a platform that has the prospect of running on a more "valuable" blockchain. Yeah, it will be hard to scoop a million folks onto the new machine but not as hard as you may think if by then, Ned and his team somehow manage not to get people being here for more than just the money, but just plain wanting something different from Facebook, Twitter and Medium. Steem Inc are taking for granted the pioneer-effect a two-year old first-among-equals site is giving them.