I agree that one of the problems is too many self-referential posts (too many posts on steemit that are about steemit or steem relative to other topics, including this one! :) ). Given the feature set and restrictions this is much more a blogging platform than a social network like facebook (though blogging communities are a type of social network themselves). I think Steemit needs to find other features to promote that make this a good platform for blogging and/or social networking other than the cryptocurrency aspect. Some people may not even care about the money part of it. So aside from that, what are the things people are going to care about that make this a better platform than wordpress or blogger or whatever?