Steemit's greatest strength is the way it incentivises its users to keep contributing to the platform. Between easy community engagement and the potential for a high crypto payout, attracting and retaining talented users is far easier here than elsewhere. But its potential for payout is also its greatest weakness: there are plenty of users, especially early adopters, who will do everything in their power to game the system to capture a greater share of the reward pool. They buy or sell upvotes, operate sock puppet accounts, or get by on churning out a steady stream of low-effort content instead of contributing value to the platform.

At this stage I'm not sure how the latter can be satisfactorily addressed without altering how Steemit fundamentally works. But I think building up communities of users who are dedicated to producing quality content in their respective fields will go a long way towards improving the platform for everyone.

PulpRev is a community of fiction writers that draws lessons from the pulp grandmasters of the early 20th century and applies them to modern fiction. Mindset, characteriation, worldbuilding, dialogue, action, setting, genre-mashing, and most of all, PULP SPEED! You can find the official PulpRev blog at www.pulprev.com -- but it should not be considered the One True Voice of PulpRev -- and if you search the #steempulp and #pulprev tags here you can find a taste of what we do. Hope you enjoy our stories!