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Downvotes are scaring everyday people away from Steem.

My assumption is that your observations are anecdotal at best. Heaven forbid if your everyday people had to suffer the critique of real world editors.

My anecdotal observation has been that golddiggers come and go at the rise and fall of the fiat exchange of STEEM.

The big picture was referring to the fact based observation that voting bots are in marked decline and the somewhat agreed opinion that the trending page is worth looking at now, with the recent changes in the last HF, which are two good things for this project in my opinion.

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See that's just it...

Everyday people shouldn't go through 'real world editors' and this lie that Steem must only have Pulitzer Prize winning articles and content is insane.

No it's not anecdotal. I work with hundreds of community members every single day and bust my ass to bring people to Steem.

Two things scare them away the most....The confusion with account keys and the potential of downvotes.

Heaven forbid you create a blockchain of encouraging and supportive members....