personally I tend to agree more with @runicar here, particularly:
consequence of the innability of the community or the system to find and adequately reward quality content thus
I am sure of System first of all, community already depends on it and adjusts ("bends") accordingly. System is made that way: it is an Investment platform, which encourages people to invest into its Crypto token on a long term basis and focuses on anything and everything which may support its value first of all. it rewards first of all those people who figured that out and adjusted accordingly, helping the System to accomplish its own goals, which are not about good Content. LOL
in recent post @trafalgar has also expressed similar thoughts and conclusions:
Under our current economy of linear and 25% curation, it is roughly 4x more financially rewarding to participate in content indifferent voting behavior...
We need to devise and implement a new economic system that rewards the behavior we want...
You get the behavior you reward the most on here...
Focusing on UI or communities as a solution is like ... {he means - pretty irrelevant or useless :D}
We can change the economics here to incentivize the behavior we want...
So, it is the System itself which has to be changed ! to start being Good Content focused and thus motivating, emphasizing and rewarding people who cares about Content Quality what they really deserve.