"What is steemit not possibly doing right?" The curation system sucks. When I look at the feed it's noise and crap posts. The original white paper said content creators would get paid for votes over the lifetime of the content. But the current reward system only rewards votes the content gets in the first week. This ruins the long tail effect of writing good content. If you want to get good content creators, need to make all votes get paid, not just 1st week.