Below you see screenshots of Steemit.com trending and hot pages.
As you may notice all post in trending and hot sections are submitted by users with high reputation scores. That means that only well known members of the community can hope that their posts will be spotted and valued. But in order to become well know you either should invest tons of money in the project or be well known person from outside the project. It looks like bad loop. For my perception this is a problem that should be solved. I was hoping that lowering votes per day from 40 to 5 would help due to the fact that this change would harm bots and frequently voting users most of all. But this really needed change (IMHO) was postponed. Lower price for steem won't solve the problem because most of steem are locked in steem power and therefore this won't change current distribution.
The problem is also about few people with tons of SP (aka whales) which just can't curate such amount of content being created in a single unit of time. It is cognitive overload. And no one can assure you that their taste alings with preferences of thousand of minnows and newcomers.
Do you see the same problem that I do? What solutions do you have for it?