For those following me you will know about the liquidity rewards for market makers and how it is not working. Several iterations have been done and each time it has led to a degenerate outcome where a single party dominates every reward.

Now most devteams would either not admit there is a problem or ignore a trouble maker like me who points out when things are broken.

I tried to join slack to get some realtime interaction with the devs, but it is disabled for new signups. So I made a github issue: https://github.com/steemit/steem/issues/175

mvandeberg commented 23 minutes ago
"We were discussing liquidity rewards this morning internally. It is obvious there are flaws with how the rewards are currently working. We do not know if it is a fundamental problem with our design or simply an artifact of the current market conditions. Regardless, we are convinced that the current state of liquidity rewards is not achieving the design goals we had for them, so we will be temporarily disabling liquidity rewards while we reconsider the design and work towards a more permanent solution."

Now how many devteams would not only admit that there is an issue, but actually do something about it?

Steemit is different (in a good way) and that gives me great optimism about its future.