You make a good point. I actually think Zappl needs its own reward pool, it shall not compete with the blogging service. Steepshot, the Instagram of the Steem blockchain, the same, its own reward pool. All these services are so different from eachother, it shall not compete for the same rewards. You will end up in Zappl hatters to start downvoting when a Zappl post get a lot more rewards over long and quality articles. It is for a reason why all these services are silo services; and the history has proven silo services have the chance to become successful while services allowing all sort of different things, are generally not becoming successful.
yeah, the greatest barrier is going to be differences in quality.
I may not like short posts, and seeing something from zappl share the same reward pool as I may just tip me over the edge to flag.
From experience, separate but interconnected services is better than a single large service
Exactly!
Fully agree. Issue with the Steem blockchain is; No inbuild control or even T&C on application type; a design flaw imho.