great thinking. Here are some of my suggestions ---
- Steemit must has a feature which will measure the traffic of an article. And will be moved those articles which has significant traffics/visits to a new area "Mostly Viewed Stories".
- Steemit must integrate ad publishing programs like as Google Adsense. And all earnings from showing ads will be used for developing and maintaining this platform.
Those are my personal thinking :)
I like your idea about the traffic views but moving them to a Mostly Viewed area needs to factor in some sort of views to votes ratio that would help to reflect a level of quality. If a post is getting a lot off traffic but relatively low number of votes, that could indicate a poor quality post.
I have mixed feelings about the ads on the platform. They are likely going to come, but I think part of the attraction at this stage is the relief from ads.
I think these are excellent suggestions jerremie. There are other measures of quality that are presently being overlooked within Steemit which is highly frustrating for everyone. We must ensure that any innovation is highly resistant to being gamed as any weakness will be ruthlessly exploited.
I would have no problem with advertising so long as it was forever based on user choice and that data privacy was respected.