Thanks for your response.

It is good to know that you always use your own images. I will pass that information on to our curator team, so that for future references, we are clear on that.

Your remark that tribes claim generic tags is one that is heard more often and i'd like to take this opportunity to adress that. No tribe has exclusive rights on tags. Everybody who wants to start a tribe can link the same tag. There could be hundreds of tribes linking the "photography" or "technology" tag and users who would post using these tags would earn hundreds of different tokens on their posts, next to their earned steem. In my opinion tribes add value to the tags they link to, as users earn additional tokens and are likely to get more interaction on their posts.

Tribes empower communities in a way that Steemit has never been able to do. I have heard from many users that our tribe has given them a sense of enthousiasm back, that they had lost somewhere on the way in Steemit. There is much more interaction, teams and projects are formed and the quality of content on tribes exceeds that on Steemit in fold. Just compare our trending page to the photography trending page on Steemit.

Lastly i believe tribes are the perfect tool to bring new users into steemit, as they can find communities with shared interests and likeminded people there. As with everything in life, some tribes will stand out and others will fail.

As we are a photography tribe (with a curator team made up off established Steem photographers) the "photography" tag is our core and we strive to make it all it can be.