It sucks that people feel that they have to be disingenuous in order to make any headway on the platform.
I just wrote a article on one way we can help to both increase the quality of content and allow people to not feel as rushed to get paid for their work on Steemit. Here is the link if interested. https://steemit.com/spam/@healthbasics/my-solution-to-fight-spam-and-increase-quality-content-on-steemit-just-one-cultural-change-to-residual-steemit-income