As a newcomer, trying to grow organically, I totally agree.
On a related note, to increase human interaction and level the playing field I submitted a suggestion yesterday to hide most of a post's meta-data until someone chooses to vote for it:
https://steemit.com/utopian-io/@edward.maesen/steemit-leveling-the-playing-field-and-promoting-human-interaction
Interesting article and thoughts!
I'd love to see a more content-driven structure here in general. Currently content is ranked according to the payout. Why not structure it according to the users' fields of interest? Show me content I like, hide te one I've already seen/commented - independently from its monetary value.
If we focussed more on the message and less on the money, the success would come automatically...
Thanks and I agree. To that end I'd also like to see some sort of bookmark/label functionality so I can organize and get back to interesting posts later.