Thanks for the link, good content, followed and upvoted! I think those features could definitely help fix this problem among users who want to get the best quality content out of Steemit. I especially agree that the trending page needs enhanced because it is unlikely that all users will enjoy the same one-size-fits-all content.

This site's affinity for obscuring old posts is surprising considering the precedent of other sites like Stack Exchange, which value their archives and put tremendous emphasis on getting rid of duplicate content. On Steemit, an idea will keep coming back in different posts over and over and then disappearing again, like an absent-minded professor!

The main reason why I feel the need to alter the home page is that some users are so much into the game that they just sit on the main page and upvote content to the trending page without actually reading it.

This creates strange metrics like this:

4x the number of people upvoted as actually read it!
This phenomenon gives whales automatic trending status, decreasing minnow exposure.