Good question. I don't think so but some may say otherwise. I think it would just serve to calm people when things like dDOS attacks, site outages, 72 Million SP power downs by the team, etc happen and there's no explanation for days or weeks at a time.

In the six months I've been here there's been a few occasions when steemit inc could have done us all a favor and take a few minutes to write a simple post explaining what's going on when things don't seem on the up and up or in times when a lot of users are uncertain about something that's going on with the platform.

Maybe I should have said they should hire someone to do status updates on what's going on, not like a traditional PR person or team to actively promote and do other things. We already have some good promoters for steemit and they're doing it voluntarily.