You bring up great points and the article you linked to was a good read. The trouble with most nerds (I know because I was a huge one...still am) is they don't embrace their nerdiness. Instead so many of them make it their ultimate goal to try to prove to the world how cool they are. I suspect this is what we could be seeing here. The truth is, we're coming into an age where nerds will rule the world so it'd be really smart for people to embrace it. As we attract more and more of the mainstream here I understand we need to embrace popular culture here but I hope there's still room for some things of more substance. When I started here in July I would refer to Steemit as the "thinking person's Facebook". It would be nice to continue to be able to say this. What I'd like to see is the ability to follow/subscribe to tags/catagories like we do people. This way we could totally filter from our feeds the things we aren't interested in. If we change our minds we could "tune in" to other "channels".