The value of Steem is what I did call Fruit Of Work {FOW}. Good content, no copy-paste shaite indeed. But, as Steem has value, that also will attract copy-pasters. Or upvote fishers with those 'good-post' and so on. Still I do fall for those now and then. Curating is a tough job too and important for the future value of Steem.

And it is indeed an unique portal into the realm of Cryptos. Making it possible for a lot to get other cryptos that they earned by posting on the Steem blockchain.

And I did give it some thought to stop reward obvious upvote fishing. As those who upvoted my post already get some of the potential payout. Only really interesting replies to the content of my post are worth an upvote.

So curation is also a very important part of giving the content on the Steem blockchain value.