Totally agree that steem has big potential.

However I'd love to see more high quality content on steem. As of now it's hard to compare steem and, say, medium. I just tried to search "blockchain" using steemit search... I don't think I have any other choice but go to medium, search there and see nicely-looking list of good articles.

Another bothering thing is people doing whatever have to be done just to get upvotes and resteems. Of course there is a way to play the system by posting something, asking other to promote it and promoting their posts in return. Or I don't know what people do but I see quite a lot of posts that has little value to me (some contest or someone saying that steemit is cool) that nevertheless earn $200+.

In fact is seems that currently there is a little incentive for someone to write a good articles. Ones that require research and take at least few hours or days to write. Why bother? Post a photo to contest and earn twice that money!

And, frankly, I don't know how you guys are not embarrassed with these "resteem!", "upvote!" or "N followers!!!" images. I don't know, in my opinion it's so cheap and flashy... It's like a car sticker - you probably won't put it on a Ferrari.

But steam is at early stages. So I hope it'll overcome these obstacles - the ideas implemented here are great.