RE: Why Steemit, Inc. NEEDS to Increase the Community Creation Fee

I get your point for spam prevention, but relying on this as a way to fund the SPS or even to burn some steem is ridiculous...

We want to encourage people to build as many communities as they can, because in the end, everyone starting a community will be working for STEEM. A community leader will try to bring over new users, which need STEEM to operate, so they buy and the price increases.

The value of STEEM is in the RC system, not in some burn for creating a community, you don't see big enough.

And for the spam, well, who are we to judge? If you don't like a community then do not join it. If you like it, join it. What if you become part of a community that has 5 users total (including the leader), should we just discard this community in the name of spam prevention?

What if a community starts by being useless, basically just spam, and then 10 years laters grows into something huge, something nobody expected? I think the 3 steem burn is great, 4 steem or 5 steem would be exactly the same, the point is just not to make it free (for extreme spam).