I am one of the Artists that inhabit the Steemit platform and like a previous similar platform that went down the tubes, Tsū, I am here to get my art recognition. Yes, the aspect of reward for that process is great and it suits my situation perfectly.
We artists posting here put in so much effort to provide value to the whole Steemit experience, yet at times, we expend hours of effort to produce a piece which comes from the heart and the recognition or rewards are extremely frustrating to see.
I agree that there could/should be a better way to do this and what we saw on Tsū was the platform move from a model very close to the Steemit one to one where the Topics moved to a Groups system.
They made it possible for users to create groups and be admins of those groups. The group admins got paid a percentage, albeit small, of the overall value of the posts for each period, I believe which was monthly.
This model opened up the platform to a better way to find content and at the same time be able to bookmark your favourite topics, all while being paid for content creation.