Damn and this post was made 9 months ago. Steemit didn't get any better from the looks of it. Whales & bots are killing this platform. Whales have too much power that neutralized the entire concept of a decentralized platform. And bots make sure any low quality content can fill up the trending pages and make sure to hide away quality contents made by new users. I guess you can see this as a nice experiment and hopefully the next decentralized blockchain based social network will learn from its mistakes.