Press releases might be good but they might have unintended side effects. While some journalists will follow the 'good news stories' in the press releases, others will see hyper success and be intent on 'digging the dirt' to get a new more controversial angle.

Will @papa-pepper really want the media attention that pushing his story in a press release would inevitably bring? Journalists will start sniffing round looking for the back story that will sell the news article. Although @papa-pepper has given some of his story on steemit will he want it dug over by the controversy hungry journos?

Looking at the Daily Steem Reports from @elyaque I'm not sure steemit needs any more publicity. It seems to be growing fantastically well just by word of mouth and whatever media coverage it is already getting.

SInce 13 June (coincidentally the day my account was approved!) there has consistenly been c 2000+ new accounts every day - 3 or 4 times what it was only a month ago.

What would be the impact on the steemit infrastructure if suddenly big (favouable) media coverage brought in say 10,000 new applications each day? My account took 4 days for approval. No big deal but it could generate negative press coverage if people had to be waiting say 3 weeks for approval.

And how would the rewards system be affected if there was a sudden massive injection of new accounts?

I am only a noob here so I have no idea about the 'big picture' and what I say may be total misguided cr*p but I would think for the timebeing it will be better for steemit to continue to grow organically on its current trajectory.

Sorry this was a bit long. Thank you for reading.