Yes that make sense. Hope your wish for the NewSteem is right. Would be great one or two years from now, check the timeline and see it was the obvious choice to bring the much needed improvements to the platform.

In my opinion, I don’t think the real problem is the numbers of users signing in. There should be a clear focus on making the platform the best place it could be for the people already here. If that happens and there more people staying that leaving more will come along, increasing the numbers in the end. In addition to that I think is better few people producing great content and adding value to the platform than just having a big number of active users but no one contributes or the ones that do are the minority’s.

Also when we speak about Money we always know it will change a bit the rules of the game as a social media. Where’s is money scammers are always getting in but even social media without money, scammers are in there. For example in terms of buying followers to increase reputation and deals they get from brands and their exposure.

With time I am curious to see if this addition of the downvoting and other feature implementation of the newsteem will really clean and make steemit a better place to get in or push away even more users that with those 'small wars' don’t feel comfortable staying and be a part of those fights.