Your words are sincere

Steemit is a business network where you can make money if you make good connections with people who have Steem power, or if you invest money in Steem Power

Then this could be hard to get 100,000,000 people investing in steemit, it is also hard to few people with high steem power to be friendly to the remaining millions of dolphins and minnows.

introduce referrals and give a percentage of profits for bringing new users

This of course can help steemit to reach millions of news users and it will encourage steemians who have made promotions their hobby.

New users listen to the story of Steemit, then get flags or negative ratings because they do not know the rules of the game.

Flagging, always make me think "is really my voice here worth something?" yeah flagging is necessary to control the discipline on the platform but who decide on who is going to be flagged?

Am nobody to influence steemit but I really believe no other platform of same type will conquer steemit!

Steemit is a gold mine but can be the largest diamond mine in the world

Yes it can sir @dobartim