I'm sorry I didn't answer you in time. I usually leave comments that require time to respond to later. But then force majeure events occurred, after which there were many power outages.

In your post, which is definitely a follow-up to your comment under my post, you made a lot of important points. I guess each of us went through this stage and wrote our thoughts about the content on Steemit.

Posts in the format of a diary at one time literally saved the platform. I consider their introduction a brilliant decision. Thanks to these posts, the platform has become more popular. You no longer needed to be some prominent author or journalist to be active on Steemit every day. This brought in many new authors at a time when the platform was empty due to the split.

Like any solution, it had its drawbacks. The mass has led to a decrease in the quality of the content. But Steemit is great because no one forbids you to write quality content here. Everyone can write what they want, what they feel the need for.

Another problem you pointed out is the adequate evaluation of the content. It is often the case that a short blog post gets more support than a long in-depth article. This is partly due to subjective factors. People here get to know each other and even become friends, although they have never seen each other. People subscribe to the authors they read most often. It is their posts that they vote for, while a thorough article by an unknown author may go unnoticed.

I have been a member of curatorial teams for many months. Like you, I intended to vote for the highest quality content. However, it turned out that it is not so easy to find. For example, I have a specific day when I curate. I'm looking for posts, but many good posts have already been voted on by other teams. When I use tags to search, I find an incredible amount of garbage. And when I finally find a big in-depth article, it turns out it's also published on Hive and Blurt. I hope you will be chosen as a curator and you will be able to see for yourself that everything is not so simple.

One of the big problems is delegation services. By using them, people get guaranteed rewards, which does not incentivize them to write quality posts. When I first signed up to Steemit, I noticed that posts with one photo and the same text consistently get the highest rewards. So I started posting with one photo, but I was only getting 0 rewards. I remember it surprised me a lot then.

I am very happy to have another American join the platform. I would like to see more users from economically developed countries here.I even tried ordering Steem ads on Instagram and Google Ads for North America. However, I think it was not effective.

Should you invest in Steem? It is definitely only your decision. Personally, I see a lot of potential here. I can also conclude that a lot of positive developments have taken place here recently and we will soon see the fruits of this. I once wanted to invest myself, but the war that broke out in my country ruined those plans. What I like most about Steem is that, after investing in it, you don't have to wait for a big price increase. Over time, you have an ever-increasing amount of STEEM based on your activity. The most striking example is my personal one. I invested 0 and three years later my account is worth more than $10,000. With investments, everything would be even better.

Summarizing all the above, I would like to say that the quality of content on this platform will definitely increase. In the competition for rewards, people will try to write more and more qualitatively. I haven't seen a single curator who doesn't want to vote for quality content. The only problem is that the curators find this content. So, it's not enough to just write quality content. It is necessary that as many people as possible learn about it.

Steemit has enough problems, but we, each of us, can do something small in the right direction. 🙂