Thanks for the kind words @toddrjohnson!

I've on Steemit for almost 18 months and one of the very earliest concerns I laid out was that there's no real value in — or incentive to create — "evergreen" content here. Which really makes the Steemit format more like a newsfeed than an archive of information. Which, in turn, seems contradictory to the entire premise that by putting information on the blockchain, you are storing it more or less "forever."

If there's a single thing that makes me shake my head around here, it's the distinct impression I get that Steemit was created by plenty of genius-level developers and blockchainiacs, but nobody seemed to think that it might have been important to hire some people with serious experience in content management to give guidance on how to set this up.

I get what you're saying about extrinsic vs. intrinsic value but I don't have a useful explanation to give context in the Steemit environment, alas.