This sounds more like an issue of UX and visibility.
I was just thinking that there is a A LOT of real-estate on the sides of the screen here. Why not a floating point link of Other posts from this author: and/or People who liked this article also liked:.
There is plenty of great content that goes by unnoticed, I recognize this. The voting patterns will change with time because the valuation of Steem + new whales + demographic changes.
I agree that the UI is not optimal. However i think it is more fundamental than that.
I do believe that steemit has done well of providing a comprehensively good product. the UI is not perfect and can be improved. What you outlined makes a lot of sense.
However fundamentally, i think we need to find a way to rewards regular folks more. It seem like too much is going to too few people. The rewards do not need to be huge but there needs to reward so people have incentive to leave Facebook for steem. Instead the little guys can stay on Facebook, collect their likes and be happy.
The UI is definitely the problem. Most people blog with no payouts or expectations of rewards if the UI is good enough. Look at Reddit? No one is getting paid. Look at Facebook? No one getting paid, but they blog.
Then look at WoW where people pay money into the system just because it's fun.
Well, at the end of the day, you don't get anything for posting on Facebook or Twitter or wherever. That isn't being done anywhere else, at least with this scaling potential. So at least that can act as a foundation.
We're in totally uncharted territory.
Thanks for the valuable discussion :)
Yes. Thank you for kicking it off. I love this place. And I love the energy that goes into improving it.
This will be a fun ride.