@steemit I think steemit has great potential as a pioneering social media with several issues to address for needed improvement.
Steemit.com doesn't have many user friendly features that are common among most social media, such as easy to search past posts (the resteemed clutters up every members' profile page). Filtering or better yet, separating resteemed posts from authors' posts is urgently needed and there are other issues such as security, censorship abuse, and the popularity meme.
Upvotes Chasing Whales meme is overwhelming minnows. One possible response is to hide the upvotes and the payout counters until the 7 day timestamp expires so other considerations about the post could enter the readers' decision making process.

There may be other issues that need to be addressed and there certainly are many possible responses to choose from, I am certainly looking forward to the advances steemit.com and other 3rd party blockchain programmers will take to make steemit even better - wishing you success! 👍