Your initiative might just lead to greater things. We might be onto something here; a group of users who take control over their feeds and who aggressively use muting (facilitated to make it easy and automatic) to nuke the selfish people here effectively out of existence.
Keep doing what you're doing. I'm not much of a web developer but I'll do what I can to help put this together. Counterattack!
I believe it is a very solid plan that could easily gain a real movement due to the total frustration of the average Steemian who is watching the rewards pool raped daily by those who so short sited they actually feel it is good for the platform to take money from everyone else, since their article is quality.