Personally I don't know if there is a total answer to this besides a focus on partial reward going to content that is engaging. We could say that YouTube has a similar curation problem because spammy ridiculous stuff can rise up and go viral
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Probably not. People are trying to game every system. However, youtubes algorithms shits on steems as of now. Money is involved for everyone and we cant just tell everyone to stop being greedy. It is far more difficult for crap to go viral on youtube. It used to be much easier, but things are improved upon. Once you change something, youll have some negative consequences that didnt exist before but its a process.
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Personally I feel like the crypto economics on STEEM are too far off from something that can be a more usable system but it can't be the only thing attempting to support the whole ecosystem.
If I had the money to build another platform I would essentially utilize the same thing it is in its current form but tweek a few things and make certain features a tiered system to where you have to reach certain power levels to unlock certain features. Then there would be the additional revenue from the internal and external ad engine.
Even if the crypto rewards were always partially skewed because of the stake weighting people wouldn't care as much if they precieved that they were doing well for the type of content they were posting.
Just like we see when the market surged. Most people weren't really talking about any negative aspects because the good times were rolling.
Unfortunately this system is a death sentence during a bear market because the inflation is too high in comparison to other coins such as Bitcoin and EOS and people are trying to live off the earnings here.
It is just a funding mechanism for other projects essentially but that is a dangerous game because anyone who powered up outside money suddenly has to try to earn more than it is losing in comparison to other crypto projects.
In my opinion it is so close but yet so far away.