RE: Team Europe and some other stuff
I have to admit I was never in favour of focusing the Steemit Team support on particular groups of people from certain regions of the world, as this generally tell all other bloggers, their creative works are of less value (given the much smaller rewards they get). Then, in turn, with time, such bloggers loose interest to share their best works.
I saw an interesting comment earlier today, implying that if other "nations" did the same, whether it would be accepted. Which led me to think that maybe out of the 11 voting accounts, there's an account for each continent to focus on. I wouldn't like the idea of voting purely on European authors but it would give a greater sense of "fairness" (and also the existing, unspoken biases can be explicit).
Whatever happens, hopefully this shift will be noticeable, rather than the same people doing what they've always done under a different label.
I totally understand that.
I was trying to pick my words very carefully to avoid stepping on someone's toe.
Actually, I think this "favouring" happens naturally with time as if we compare an average monthly salary (representing the standard of living in a way), let's say in UK (few thousand GBP) with Venezuela (under 10 USD) and given the steemcurators1 & 2 votes are about the same, divided by 3 on each report, then it appears people, who are a bit financially misfortunate to be employed there are getting quite a remuneration with each weekly report.
I bet there are even some who only "work" here on STEEM ;)
Then those curators tend to reward their friends and people closer to them, their compatriots, etc. That's normal but not diverse. I think this is the main Steemit Team is trying to improve. This disbalance.
I guess we, who live in Europe, do it more for the pleasure and passion, as in the latest years depending only on steemit, isn't enough to make a proper living around. Still, I am sure that everyone would love to see a more balanced rewarding.
There are plenty of regional and country-specific communities already, so I don't see any problem we enjoy some European support.
Moreover, we have so many beautiful things to share ahead :)
Cheers :)