Putting me on the spot huh? ;)

Unfortunately I can't make that promise.

I can't predict or control exactly what the future holds for the Steem blockchain. I only have 1/20th of the power that witnesses hold in steering, and have no say what Steemit Inc does otherwise. On the other hand, if I was in charge of it all, I imagine that promise would be a bit easier to make.

There's a number of possible situations I can come up that would cause me to go back on my word:

• a change to Steem in order improve steemit.com/busy/etc model, yet cripples the concept of a forum
• opposite of that, the forums are super successful, and activity generated by the forums start actually causing problems for steemit.com/busy/etc
• the blockchain itself ends up growing so large that it needs to be split somehow
• investors enter the equation and demanded a alternative path

What we say here is etched into the blockchain forever, so I won't make a promise to you that I can't keep.

I still occasionally hear rumblings of people wanting to bring back 50% curation rewards... which now I'm more biased against because I'm pretty sure that'd be terrible for forums.