Any idea on improving distributing votes better across the platform to those posts that deserves it (based on parameters such like value of content, quality, effort etc) I appreciate really much. I actually think we shall primarily focus on improving curation and curation reward distribution. I don't think 1 measure needs to be taken, I think a multitude of measures needs to be taken; Some needs to be tested, others needs to be just implemented. But we shall also not be afraid to remove something when it does not work out. Since HF19, the platform became much easier for bots to do their business and become more profitable. Although I have nothing against bots, if we want this community to survive, we have to take measures to reduce the bot voting and bot posting. Next to technical changes, I think we should stimulate more and more curation groups. We have some, and some other try to start, but I think this needs to be stimulated even more. It would be create of Whales can start moving their delegated power from vote selling services towards quality curation teams. I think we need a thorough brainstorming and decision making on this topic and it would be very helpful if we would have some kind of centralised discussion board for that. With the decentralised approach we have at Steemit, it is really hard to get a good discussion going including all ideas of community members, since many members will not even discover posts like this one but have great ideas and knowledge to contribute to this topic. I really like to see a button in Steem UIs bringing us to a topic discussion board; That is were STINC can help us with, a simple button and some open source discussion board code behind it. I truly hope after SteemFest2, we can make steps on these lines, instead of only focussing on SMT. True, SMT may do good to Steem, but when the community falls apart, this may harm Steem at the same time. Although SMT is out in the open, Steem is not doing well, do lets work on the service first ie the make the community better and stronger, before we start working on Steem as the enabler for even more coins and tokens.
EDIT: I discovered this post pure by accident, I was analysing SteemD from a user for a complete different purpose and stumbled upon this post and felt I had to click the post...have no idea why I felt I needed to click the post...and I glad I had that feeling so I could give my opinion on the matter. To be honest, months ago I was spending a lot of time on discovering, reading, and commenting to posts related to making the community better, but I stopped that activities since it took too much time and since I also wanted to work on other topics, like music, I was spending at least 6 hours at Steemit, every day, all taken away from my non-working time. We really have to make all of this more efficient, since most of us will not spend such an amount of time on Steemit, it is simply not possible.