It's a lot of junk to go through to find good articles.
It would really help if people helped themselves. Instead of just posting a picture have a little write-up with the picture. Where you took it, how you took it, what caused you to go there to take that picture.
Also, source your pictures. Even this isn't enough "technically" as you're supposed to get the authors permission, but you'd be amazed how many people are even too lazy to just post the website where they found said picture.
Absolutely!
The query I used looking for a minimum amount of characters so that solves the first problem. (I can hear the artists and photographers screaming right now!)
And for the second point, If i see something i like and it's missing sources, I will suggest these to be added in the comments next time.
For me, @curie et. al, look for the best work. That's fine, but what about the alright work? The stuff that could do with some guidance. We need to comment on this work and help folks improve to, ideally, @curie levels.
That would be awesome curation!
To you have a tool you use that you can suggest?
Yes, I would read Carl's posts mentioned above.
LINQPAD 5 is free and simple, the connection details are in the posts above, and also a good base template.
Feel free to visit the #bisteemit tags for other work on accessing the SteemSQL DB, and let me know if you need some guidance.
cheers!