I wasn't very skeptical about Steem, just like any other cryptocurrency I'm very cautious of my investment (in this case it's time, and writing good articles). I've been with bitcoin for quite a while, and a friend of mine asked me to join Steemit on Google+, eventually another friend also opened his account so I decided to follow the bandwagon. As far as I can tell, Steem & Steemit seems to be a great idea, I just hope the whales or the elite steemers don't kill small time posters since they have more weight in the algorithm.