Excellent job as always, Tim. Thanks for bringing this up for discussion. Does Steemit, Inc have an official stance on this other than the previously posted message about the cost of account creation? With the rise in Steem price, they should have a lot of USD value needed to run operations with less Steem required for sale on exchanges. Seems the witnesses could raise the creation fee rather quickly if we think onboarding needs to slow up a bit.
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Steemit replied to the post with an official stance:
Hi Tim, we (Steemit Inc) have completed the task of re-delegating 10 SP to all accounts which were previously lowered to 5 SP. Everyone should now have 15 SP delegated to them (unless they've already exceeded this amount themselves). We don't want any new users to have a negative user experience on Steemit due to bandwidth limitations. Also, thank you for this important post and valuable feedback.
They haven't made any official positions as far as I'm aware..
I don't think we want to slow onboarding though. The momentum that we have right now could be our big chance to take off. It wouldn't be good to stifle that over solvable technical limitations.
They have expressed concerns that the current system is not scaleable, especially if the fees continue to get more expensive. I believe they are looking into ways to improve the way signups are handled.