[SERIOUS] MOONS baseline value is driven by the sub community

A big bump in moons has caused a lot of excitement in the last month.

We've introduced banner sales, with big businesses lining up to purchase. Moonplace has provided another avenue for using moons.

So should we place a greater focus on moons in this sub?

I don't think so.

The projects built to utilise moons are only as successful as the CryptoCurrency subreddit which underlies it.

A sub of 6.1 million members. 10,500 of those members made a contribution to earn at least 1 moon in the last distribution. That's a lot of highly targeted potential customers for any new project.

So what happens if people come just for the moons?

Community engagement drops. Those looking for genuine conversations find other places to go.

Your targeted customers change.

New projects won't garner the same kind of engagement. New projects lack sales and begin to fail. Advertisers stop buying banners.

The faith in moons drops. The price of moons drops.

I have participated in online communities since the 90s, and seen plenty of forums slip from prosperous times to wastelands in mere months.

Crypto currency conversation must remain the clear primary focus of the sub. Moons must remain somewhere in the distance, as a side-benefit, the thing you find out about after participating for a while. Not front-and-center and the first thing that hits you when you walk in the door.

The quality of the subreddit, and therefore the price of moons, relies on it.

So when we are thinking about sub proposals, take a moment and think about how it may impact the focus and quality of the sub.

Thoughts?

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Side notes:

My intention isn't to come off as "holier than thou". I've got a bag of moons, I want to see the price go up as much as anyone else.