(Addressing separate issue, just thought it was a good place to put it)

I just feel the bigger more immediate problem should be spam. It may sound like hyperbole but the majority of posts here are spam/theft.

The worst thing for the site is that the word spam enters the room whenever one talks about it to those familiar. That is how Steemit is known in the wider community. When contacting artists and writers to confirm their work is stolen, they frequently say 'LOTS of my stuff has been stolen on steemit' - with anger and frustration.

Steemit is officially a 'spam website', and it'll never grow to anything more until that is addressed.

Whether or not the 'spam' in question fits under the definition purely, there are still those who google translate, post nothing but a youtube video, paste a news article and just throw the source at the bottom. All of these actions are rewarded here and incentivize exploitation. The website is a river of data perpetually crossing the line of illegal content.

I'd suggest something like a minimum time before being able to post. Like the 3 seconds per upvote, 20 seconds per comment, perhaps 10 minutes before posting, and 3 hours between posts or something.

It would at the very least ensure spammers are putting the time into it.