Nice article! Thanks for that! :)
I have few ideas about developing Steemit:
-Voting system much be simplified that anyone can understand how it works. I don't think that it should matter when you vote the post. I think your votes should be always same value no matter when you vote the post.
-Steemit should do something to bots. As we have seen that @anyx has shown what bots can do. He hasa 150 bots which he can upvotes his(someone else) posts or and that way to get his posts on the active/hot/trending pages. I don't have a solution for this but maybe you do.
-Steemit should add back feature of deleting and editing your own posts after 24 hours.
-I believe Steemit will become the next big player in the social media world if the community and developers work together! :)