Other social media sites do not give out money, so they have the ability to exclude dislikes (downvotes) Since we do not have that ability without getting robbed blind by scammers our choices are to stop giving inflation rewards to authors or do a better job with downvotes. The choice is that clear.

Of course there is good and bad and even ugly things happening. Our internal math only matters to us. No one outside of this tiny community cares about it at all.

The thing that I want to think about is how do we get Steem and it's apps some attention.

The petty little wars don't bother me, most of it happens because our community is so small and overly personal. When and if we get more users, most of the petty conversations will fall away.

That's why I'm focused on NewSteem.