This is an incredibly rich article full of fine suggestions and much food for thought. I am resteeming it so I can have it on my own blog -- and find it again. (One of the big problems on Steemit still is how easily things of tremendous value get lost!!)

I am also putting it in front of at least one group I belong to on Discord. I am currently curator for a writing group called The Unmentionables, ( @unmentionable ) a group dedicated to encouraging exceptional content over a wide range of interests and cultures. I know first hand the enormous amount of work that goes into producing a curated list -- and yet, my husband and I continue to talk about how to create such a feature ourselves from among the accounts we find and follow.

Right now, we don't have the (Steemit) resources for our upvotes to be worth much -- and that has so far been the big stumbling block we haven't yet seen a good way to overcome. (In time, that will change. But meanwhile, people need help. Visibility is a huge problem for small, new and relatively new accounts. I think there are ways the developers could address this further, but they don't seem real focused on that -- or apt to create a better environment for new writers / artists / content creators to grow and develop any time soon.)

This has led to the current controversy involving vote-buying ... when that remains one of the few ways for a new account to get seen and gain the necessary traction to make a Steemit existence worthwhile and ultimately profitable. I am absolutely dedicated to finding a way to work with this though. (I am not one to sit on my hands and lament "the situation" if I can take any remedial action at all.)

Thank you so much for your ideas and suggestions this morning. It has renewed my determination and inspired even more thought on the subject (which I'd say was your intent.) Excellent work deserves to be seen, encouraged and rewarded. If there is a way -- even a small way -- I can manage this, I will find it. My husband and I will be talking again about this as soon as I post this comment. Thank you so much for the work that went into this post.