Yes, I completely agree. I think it's still early days and the current content of steemit reflects that. As the user-base of steemit grows, and the platform itself matures, we are likely to see significant changes. Firstly, while I have only been here for a few days (yes, not very long), it does appear to be that individuals are motivated to write stories/comments for some financial gain. Fine, that's a legitimate use of this platform as far as I can tell.

I see that these financial incentives drive people to write articles that others will find interesting, which is great. However, for those who don't have anything interesting to write about, or do not think about their audience when writing, these financial incentives may lead them to try produce a higher quantity of articles, rather than a higher quality. Again, what's wrong with that? No one has to read them or comment on them.

But in my opinion, all of this really misses the key use case of the steemit platform. Let's think about this - it is a decentralised platform for sharing stories an information. So.....what centralised companies/industries make their profits from the same service, i.e. sharing stories and information. Well...you might be thinking about FACEBOOK and about ALL CORPORATE NEWS SERVICES, as well as ALL PUBLISHERS. Can anyone see how steemit may disrupt these massive corporations which make their money from people sharing stories as well as accessing current, reliable, factual information.

So, could it be possible that steemit becomes a reputable source for news that replaces existing news sources including the NY Times, Huffingtonpost, Daily Mail, etc? Of course it is, and it NEEDS to happen.

Think about this...many people no longer trust major new corporations as reliable sources of information. And we have good reasons not to. The news disseminated by these profit-driven corporations act to promote the agenda of its stakeholders, and are known to be strongly influenced by the the chief editors' political ties. I don't even need to list the examples of this type of corruption within mainstream media, as I am sure this would be fresh in the minds of most, given it was widely exposed by Wikileaks during the recent US election.

I believe that in the future the key use case of Steemit will be to enables us, the people of the world, to reach consensus on what deserves to be the most disseminated piece of information on a topic by using a distributed system without an editorial board, political ties, or other external influences.