I think you raise something of utmost importance. There are not enough readers.
I love this idea of not sharing you own post. #postpromotion should be renamed #dropandgo and i am glad to be able to tell you other communities are moving to this type of share over post promotion.

With the current state of steemit, it is hard to find content. I have even resorted to creating my own data pull on certain criteria when looking for new authors and posts. Hopefully hivemind communities will help solve the problem of finding content. Then we might be able attract new readers.

I also feel that authors are not putting in the effort to use social media and tradational blog growth strategies to grow thier following and get exposure off steemit for their blogs.

All that aside, what you are doing is one step towards building a better steemit and addressing the problem by providing this solution. Awesome. More shillen less dropandgo 😀