The biggest issue is that there is no quality discovery mechanism...

The biggest issue is that this continues to be the elephant. But it’s a fallacy because it assumes that everybody wants only quality. If that were the case TMZ, Perez Hilton, daily soaps, shopping channels, and so much mor would never have become popular.

But the reality is that everyone is free to fork an interface and implement their own additional layers. The fact that Steem Inc believes in open source doth not necessarily equate that it is ours to totally play with. Unless of course, we are fine with a lower degree of popularity. Which Steem Inc. Most definitely is and which is one of the reasons why condenser and all other libraries used on steemit.com are open source.

But, please, stop trying to enforce quality as a metric. What to you is quality may be exhausting to somebody else. And that’s a pedestal of elitism one needs to come down from.

Or fork into.

Even poor quality content can find an audience. There’s hundreds, thousands, millions probably, of content/news regurgitating sites online who have enough of an audience to continue operating viably. Quality? Not to me because I prefer HackerNews over PCWorld. But apparently good enough for their audience.