For me, it is an experiment.

Google isn't stupid (I mean the google bot).
The idea to pay people to post/comment or vote it's original, but a lot (and I say, A LOT) of content it's posted here and sadly sucks. It's copy/paste, it's bad curated, a lot of post like a tumblr blog. Really sucks!

Nice idea steem, but... you need moderators (a lot!).
And need to ban all the bots.

Thanks for this space.
Regards from... ;)