That was one of the main priorities for the team during 2017. While it is obvious that the more people join STEEM the greater the value of the blockchain and apps on it.
But many people have already started to share concerns with the fact that original STEEM goal to incentivize creating of quality content is not working as good as expected at the moment. The reasons are voting bots, spam and other tricks.
I can assume that the flow of new users won't improve the quality situation. And I know that communities, SMTs are in progress at the moment and are designed to partially address the issue with good content and incentivization model.
What's your take on this? Do you feel like we need to take additional measures in addition to those that are in plan for 2018?
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I think they need to roll out what they have talked about for close to a year when we can see where things stand.
Communities is going to be a big thing for the content angle since there will be smaller grouping who are going to upvote things. As people assemble around interest, we should see the quality in those areas go up. If not, I imagine the person will not get much support from those in that group.
Bots are a large reason for what you describe and they arent going anywhere. However, over time, as the masses start to join, the big accounts are going to lose power as a percentage of the whole. Hence we will see things spread out even more (actually this is already happening).
Hard Fork, SMTs, and communities and lets see where we stand.