When I first saw Steemit, I knew that it would be a problem in the future. At the speed which it grows, quality posts will get lower and lower - ultimately leading to congestion in the sections. It does not allow the new users to settle in and start posting quality. It takes time for you to change your strategy. The primary problem is the follow for follow attitude. Following for what? So they could just send you piece of shit articles? Then all your thousand follow for follow followers starts posting-twice every hour. Trying to find shortcuts to this system is just plain ridiculous.
Turn it to a ratio and you would have to scroll 60 minutes non stop just to get to 1 single good content. I only joined 4 days ago. This wasn't how I saw Steemit in the beginning.
Whatever problem we are facing now was caused by the people trying to find the easy way to do it. Things won't get better unless the developers decide to do something about it.