I would be happy to join, but I am probably not spending as much time active on Steemit/D.Tube as the other members and I suspect that might make me a less helpful member of the group. If that's okay with

Miss the boat ;-)

I totally agree that the long term sustainability of the platform depends on the shift away from Steemit/DTube related posts, to ones that add value to people's lives independent of the financial incentive

Thanks Winny! The explanation around the similarities to MLM is super helpful. Like you said, it is MLM in a sense - and so is every currency because it only has value if we agree that it has value and

Yeah, I can't argue that the caliber of conversation here isn't higher than YouTube. And even though we all have a financial incentive, well, at least in the case of this video, it seems to work to better

Interesting. So if I'm understanding your point, it sounds like the addition of financial incentives within comments will breed higher quality discussion. Higher quality discussion means that the main

Haha, glad that we wound up on the same side ;-) And yeah, it's so easy to slip into "win" mode where you take someone's point apart piece by piece. Though it seems satisfying at first, you

Muchas gracias! I'll dig into this tonight and think up lots of questions ;-) Unfortunately I get an "error while submitting to the blockchain" when I try to change the tags. I blew my intro

Thanks so much for the suggestion! I'll do that now. And if you have a good recommendation for channel/article to learn some of these basics, I'd love to check it out