I have no programming skills whatsoever but I support what you state here completely.
This site is just one big steam it seems. I only recently got a hold of my feed since I went bonkers upon signing up and followed everyone under the sun.
That said, I have reduced it a great deal of late so that it is manageable. Outside of that though, it is hopeless. I sift through the taglines but most of them are mislabeled (some seem to think that every post has to do with STEEM).
I wasnt here two years ago but with a reported 20K authors, this place is becoming a mess. Even when I am seeking something on a particular subject, the google search bar gives me a bunch of garbage unrelated to what I seek.
Since we are ranting, one feature that really irritates me is that using other apps like Zappl, snapshot, and Dtube puts those posts in my blog category. I dont necessarily want a bunch of zaps in my blogs. The developers over the state that it is a steemit issue.
Rant over....
I think that since authors don't get rewarded for old content, they do not update it and fail to bring in long term inbound links which would float the best material to the top.
To be fair, they are right, they can't control what steemit displays.
you are very right about this,, I dont know anything about programming as well but the points are very clear to me now.
personally I like seeing all of what a member does on the ecosystem. As the flagship site, Steemit needs to implement an interface feature which allows members to filter out what they don't want to see from the ecosystem thus giving members a choice. But, that would be like making the Trending page more relevant or implementing a real search feature.. wishful thinking at this point.
I am new on steemit please guide me folloe me and vote me