I'm glad you wrote about this because I've been thinking about it and the answer is no. And it is no to our own detriment.

People need to let go of this notion of quality content and only care if the content is original or properly credited. Those with a lot of SP better think long and hard about their investment.

The best practices of the big social media sites all say that less is more and use pictures. Long form Social Media does not fare well. Medium is a great platform but it is not social media, it is just broadcast blogging.

When you tell someone they can use steepshot to basically instagram for earnings it is a lot easier than saying you have to become a blogger to earn.

We have a great thing going here and if everyone moved their social friends onto the platform everyone would win. Lets make this a social media platform instead of a giant complaining platform