I started on steemit a little over a week ago. It's interesting to read about the growing pains steemit is having becuase im too new to fully understand...Its a great idea and I have hope for the future when I read posts like yours dedicated to identifying problems and working to solve them. Its neat that a platform like this allows for that kind of development. Individuals can actively participate and therefore feel apart of the solution and that will always count for something in terms of retaining new users.