Some of these ideas are great. I dont believe in flagging or downvoting as both are heavily abused. You might be aware of @Bernie Sanders Aka @Randowhale attacking @Haejin. The whole idea of upvoting bots is making a mockery of this platform. No different to google prioritising paid content. At the moment I'd say the situation is so bad a new social platform will overtake steemit with ease.
118 views 29 views and $3.11 for a well thought out post is a shame.
I've resteemed it. Great if any one here could look at some of my posts and if you think they should be visible, help upvote them back from the depths a whale's censorship.

PS If I'm right, Steemit is a private company running an open source platform and it's not decentralised, meaning one day your fears might come right FB might just snap it up.