It is a good idea. Yeah with SteemMonsters they sort of got burned raising money in STEEM previously and then holding it and the price just imploding so now they probably just take the money.
I think there are some big whales trying to make some power plays right now with some of the price bumps we have seen with STEEM but I have done the math. STEEM would actually have to get to $0.01 and then I would inject $10,000 into it to feel like I had an real influence here. Otherwise I would have to inject too much money without enough influence on the reward pool. The inflation situation here will be a big problem for a long time so it is hard to counter act that.