Great post @lordbutterfly and I have to disagree with @ned in saying it is 'profane'. You are not the only person that feels this way, and this is mild way of putting how a lot of the the community are feeling. @ned should take note, the is a lot more profanity elsewhere.

Ah @jerrybanfield, why do you think he was supported so much as a witness, he brought the traffic. But its not steemit incs job to market, and what I get from their message is that they want to focus on development, not marketing and its because they dabbled with other stuff, they lost focus. Now the shit has hit the fan.

marketing is required, no questions asked, but there is nothing getting in the way of you or I setting up a 'marketing' department, just like we have set up communities. Why do you want steemit inc to do stuff they are shit at? there are way better marketeers here on steem that the skills steemit inc now have. All we need is a great leader to do so. The business side of steem does not have to be done by steemit inc. its a decentralized blockchain, well its meant to be.

I previously set up a department here on steem, Blockchain Business Intelligence, people were actively learning to analyze steem blockchain data and I was providing free training for those that wanted to learn. Things were going very well until utopian came in and I could not match the votes lol.

Maybe if steemit inc see promising 'department' like communities the will consider delegations to help them add the business value that is needed. But right now, steemit inc needs to focus on the blockchain, scalability problems and creating SMTS.

So tell me, what business do you have that you would like to move, because I am personally in the process of moving mine and Id love to hear more about yours?