My First Day Officially on Steemit: The beautiful and the nasty.

Disclaimer: These are NOT my final impressions and these points are made to create discussion and improvement.

First Impressions

I've passed through the website, heard about it a few times, spent sometime lurking in the whitepapers, and even referenced a couple quotes for their cryptofundementals before taking a serious approach in the direction of Steemit. If you don't know me I can be very cryptic and blunt, but am aimed towards solutions which benefit humanity and are fundamentally scaleable. If you'd like more on why I am, there's a quick post I made over here ! I think as far as platform familiarity, it will resonate well with Twitter and Facebook users as well as alternative bloggers looking to sustain a lifestyle. The experience is clean cut and inviting, but also sets the bar high for new user's involvement, activity, and innovation to create unique posting styles. I have no anticipation of creating profit here and it will be properly be reinvested into the platform, so this alleviates SteemPower issues I have later, as I'm okay with the difficulty of cashing out and that I'm only helping support keep the wheel turning for reasons I'll also have below. But at the end of day one, I will check in tomorrow.

Good

• UX: this is a very easy one, but the interfaces are smooth and attractive, normies care about looks and ease
• Transparency: All actions are hosted on the blockchain and validated by 'witnesses' as I understand
• Steemit's value model/spiral HAS and will continue to create quality content, the thought of putting value behind words or a vote is attractive and brings creativity into all posters.
  (this is where my main support for steem originates)
• There are very interesting attractive metrics which promote progressive account growth;
  (my account is worth appx. $5 supposedly as of tonight)
• Long text posts with pictures are rewarded, but videos do not do well even if original because there is no native media hosting
• There is often indepth discussion on a range of subjects, some are genuine

Bad

• Payout is restricted for 104 weeks disallowing users from cashing out their investments or profits through the platform; Speculative hype will increase worth, while many attempt to cash out, artificially stabilizing a potentially dying or already dead network pending 104 weeks.
• Social interaction and individual innovation seem to be restricted by a barrier of professionalism that comes into lay when placing a dollar sign next to a user's post;
  ie. playful innocent comments are negatively voted and made to be presented as spam in all situations.

Questions + Improvements

• How well can community form in a for-profit environment?
• Are you here for Steem and anti-censorship or to attempt to make a living or extra income by blogging?
• Is there a noticeable problem of bots used for votes because of a decrease in return?
• Is there somewhere to interact without affecting reputations?; Do reputations create bias?

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• Notifications for upvotes, follows, tags would only further increase gamification
• I would love to be able to share other's content directly on this platform
• Trending sections could be based on smaller periods of time to promote newer content versus subsidizing oldgold