Thank you for your detailed response, I almost missed it as I haven't been looking at this post in a while. You make quite a few good suggestions. Steemit is still very new and it is constantly changing. It certainly needs to make all content more accessible and easier to find. It seems like people mostly just focus on the main 'trending' list and pay little attention to the tags. The communities feature could be interesting. Hopefully more information will be revealed soon.
I noticed you are from Melbourne or living in Melbourne. You should join teamaustralia.
Hey thank you! Yes I've been a massive meme hound since the early 2000s so I've seen a lot of platforms in my time lol from old school forums to stuff like YTMND to 4chan to Reddit and Facebook. And indeed I can tell the Steemit devs are already imitating Reddit to a large extent, and they honestly need to lift a few more useful functions like I outlined that would form the minimum base for functionality. Those are absolutely usability considerations rather than to do with the blockchain. I would perhaps say that right now the system rewards bandwagoning too much, which tbh is the same on Reddit but a bit less directly so. There it's more psychological that you'd upvote something that has 10k upvotes. But here you look at the dollar figure and go oof I better put mine up there as well and get a slice of that sweet sweet 25% pie.
Ah yeah I just moved to Melbourne yay. Where are you at? What is teamaustralia, how do I join them?