It's a self-reinforcing thing. The better the traffic, the more motivated the developers and the users. And the more motivated the people are, the better the site gets. And the better the site, the more

Don't forget to pay your taxes. ;-)

Thanks for the info! How soon is soon? A few hours or a few days/weeks? I like to track my reputation raw score to see when the next increment is coming to the simplified score on my profile.

Steemit itself was in read-only mode for a few hours earlier today. It was giving a message about "maintenance work". It didn't indicate whether this was planned maintenance or an error. My guess

My favourite explanation of consciousness currently is Integrated Information Theory. And one prediction that theory makes is exactly what you write, @kevinwong, about how a being's measurement of

The larger reward figures are a good marketing tactic though. Sure, they're slightly deceptive, but they're not actually wrong. The more people see these larger amounts of money, the more they'll be motivated