First let me say @steembasicincome / @josephsavage, I appreciate the integrity with which you have approached writing this post. Specifically, wanting to hear from your members, before forging ahead with any changes to your program’s offerings to us.
My response to your proposal is pretty simple. While I have no problem with it, as written, from my perspective it is missing some vitally important information. Specifically, since this aspect of your program was implemented (at least as I understand it …) to “shore up” the need for improving the sustainability of SBI, what will the impact be on sustainability if this aspect of the program is discontinued? Perhaps somewhere the impact of this aspect of your program on its overall sustainability has been reported on, but I am unaware of it.
I can assume the answer is you would hope your program’s members would continue to upvote your posts, expecting nothing in return. Understood, but … It is hard to imagine you would have implemented this to begin with, had not the need to incentivize your members in some manner been present. Anyway, rather than make any assumptions, I would prefer to hear a direct response on any concerns about the projected impact to the program’s sustainability, should this proposal be carried out.
While not directly related to this point of this post, I have a question on the broader issue of the impact of “New Steem” on your program, since that is what has "gotten the ball rolling" in the first place. Have you given any consideration to building a downvote mechanism? Overall, the program’s ”SP power” is considerable and your member’s presumably have a share of this controversial post HF 21 / 22 feature of our Steem blockchain as well.
Thanks in advance for your response!