In noobs & spammy content, there is also the 7-day payout and/or resteem. While I'm still new myself. It seems like one cannot resteem after 7-days. That seems to limit shelf-life of good content. I'm not sure how the model could change to support good HowTo type articles. They could be perennial, especially coaching SteemIt noobs, but also for many areas.
What I do like is that this place gives credit at least in the moment (7-days) for timely bloggish content at the very least. It would be interesting to see how one might value longer-term content like a wiki or guides.
Yes, the world is small and nice to have it more connected for the thinking minds. :) I feel like crypto will be come one of the best tools for the more direct transfer & acknowledgement of value.