Everyday I notice more and more changes on Steemit. And I have decided to bring a very important problem/hurdle for the steemit community to the plate.
The evolution since day 1
Since day one, there have been more and more people joining steemit in extreme numbers. Since the steemit rewards pool is small enough as it is, we have mroe and more new people coming on here making the pool smaller and smaller. Not only that, but a lot of these new people are beggars. Like I mentioned in my last post, they are begging like crazy for upvotes, follows, etc. And a person even asked me for money. So, our rewards pool is getting drained, and we are getting more and more ignorant people on this website spamming for upvotes and follows.
And a lot of times, these new people come on here doing stuff like copying and pasting others' content and stealing ideas. So there really is a need for the 
So the way things are going, steemit is up for a crash or something bad. And I think we need to eliminate the massive wave of people joining. It's not only hurting the community and the people who were OG's of steemit, but they spam people and beg for upvotes and follows or they say "hey man I upvoted and followed" or something along those lines in hope that you would do the same for them. And the thing is, it ends up back firing because people flag them for that. Some people do, some don't. With all of the new people, we are getting hurt more and more.
And with the steemit pool being drained by the new people and people cashing out, our payouts gradually go down since HF-19, and we end up losing more than half of our payout. Damn shame. It has been hurting me sooo much.
My proposal.
I think steemit shouldn't let people in for free anymore. I believe what will help restore the community is less people. And since there are more and more people, we need to limit that. So steemit should allow people in by charging people or by invite only. Just and idea.
