https://steemit.com/steemit/@edicted/steemit-has-serious-problems-and-i-have-the-answers

Intro

There are a lot a lot of minnows out there that would make great curators, and there are a lot of whales that are bad at it. I suggest Steemit creates 3 reputations for the three main activities of the site.

Curation Reputation

The people who upvote viral posts, "before they were cool," recieve a higher curation rating. They have the ability to gain higher curation rewards and start trending creative content at a faster rate. While we're at it, let's double curation rewards to make it more worth it. (0-30 min 0-25% to 0-60 min 0-50%)

Judgement Reputation

When someone flags a post and the accused get's convicted, this rating would go up, if not it would go down. If the weight threshold wasn't triggered it would stay the same. This reputation would be used to determine how heavy a flag's weight would be, and to decide how big of a bounty share from the fine he/she would receive.

Creative Content Reputation

The backbone of steamit. These are the people creating all the core content for the site. A high reputation here means people enjoy your content, so you have a higher chance of being viewed with no curation at all. You'll also have a higher flag threshold.

Conclusion

Now, replace the word reputation with Steem Power, because Steem Power is reputation. Steem Power should be allocated to each rep as a measure of the community's trust of that user in that area. Why should content creators get to choose where 100% of the rewards pool is allocated? Your ability to disperse money on the site should be directly related to your ability to find valuable content. This is clearly under the jurisdiction of curation.

Steemit is a micro-government, it requires checks and balances. Without them it will die.

In my next post I'll explain further why the ability to buy SP is completely undermining the Steemit blockchain. By centralizing Steemit around elite investors that have way too much power, and far too little earned community trust, everyone in the community suffers; even the investors.