Here's another idea:
I remembered, there is a Steemifilterpost. (it's occasionally down, but should be working) done by @vitkolesnik which uses an algorithm to show new content that exceeds the criteria to be accepted as 'quality' content. (long enough, not plagiarized, etc.) He explains it in his
So, I was thinking maybe a similar filter could be implemented to Steemit as well, in a form of adding a new tab called 'recent articles' or 'curatable' to the side of already existing 'trending', 'hot' and 'new'. This means voting bots would have no effect on the visibility under the tab! It would be the place where the quality stuff from still unknown people could be discovered.
Sounds cool! Will definitely check it out and get back to you on that!