the issues i have with all these are quite many! :P

First of all the definition of success! If that's what they call successful they need to open a dictionary. It's like they laugh at us straight in our faces like we are stupid or something.

Also, since i came here i followed 3 principles: 1) to write quality posts 2) to write about things that i actually care 3) to interact and help people along the way.

The interaction which is the key for success is nearly impossible especially for the new users that is totally impossible :P what are they gonna do if they can't even make a comment? how the new ones that want to join the platform actually join? (basically you need to pay now)

Another thing i wanna mention is that i believe we have a couple of other things that we need to focus like the extremely old interface that is very difficult to user if you wanna curate manually or check for posts. The majority of users just use busy or steempeak. It's like steemit inc say *"ok don't bother the community will do all the work". the same applies for the older posts reward system. Except the fact that nobody can actually check your older posts manually because he needs to scroll and scroll, it's also from the perspective of the author like these posts don't worth anything after the 7 day period.

"if it doesn't get accepted, this will delay SMT"

What can i say about this? This shows the whole democratic aspect of steemit and the "for the community" type of things... What i am gonna do is take a 2-3 days off and come back when my voting power is over 80% I wanna upvote comments and posts like i used to but i can't.....