Thanks for the insight, it's was such a great change from the exponential rewards to the linear atleast for the new committed members who try to put out value to this platform.
Firstly, Ned clarifies that Steem's algorithm was designed to reward the best quality content the most, and that is still the intention. So it's reassuring to see that he still cares about quality of content.
However It will be important to note that quality content on steemit is rather subjective.
Hope we can find a way of rewarding highly for that quality content on this platform.
Right now it's still trick to just pull it off.
Quality is always subjective, but I'm sure no one will disagree that the current Trending page is garbage.