Thanks for your comment. You've got a lot of good questions, and the truth is, some of them might not have answers. For example, "What are the guidelines... for quantifying quality on Steemit...?" That's a really good question, but you could apply it more broadly to the internet in general. It's often the case that popularity and 'value' are found in unexpected (possibly undeserved) places on the internet. It's incredibly hard to predict what will or will not go viral on any platform. Remember, Van Gogh wasn't even discovered until after his death. As far as Steem serving as a platform for intellectual property like art, I know that there are still new ideas in the works as far as ways to reward people for storing their intellectual property long term on Steem. It will be interesting to see how everything evolves. Thanks again for posting.
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Interesting ideas and helps with concepts I've been mulling over myself. My initial thought coming to Steem from Bitcoin and seeing value in both got me wondering about the strategies to benefit for someone who sees value and potential in the Steem platform but lacks the skills, abilities or inclination to participate in content creation or curation. If that potential investor were to power up and passively hold SP, they may still benefit from growth of the overall system, but dilution would mean they would miss out relative to active participants. Curation bots could give the potential investor without the skill, ability or inclination to curate the opportunity to "employ" curators to help them increase the yield on their investment.
The current reward system is heavily weighted towards material whose value is instantly recognised. I would like to see a system that also recognises and rewards posts and information that is useful over time, but not necessarily viral (e.g. reference material and detailed how to guides). I would be interested to hear of the ideas being put forward for "ways to reward people for storing their intellectual property long term on Steem".