Very valuable thoughts, @steevc - thank you!

What Steem needs is a redesign. We should have a better control on what's trending / visible / important and what is not. Currently the best exposure in the network can be simply bought. It's as if one could buy the no. 1 headline in a newspaper. These spaces should be reserved for content that was considered valuable by a large majority of the community. The evaluation process of content is completely corrupted now.

That's why Bloomberg asks what the CEO is planning to do in order to improve the content quality on Steem. That's why Steem has such a negative image now.

The more we talk about it, the merrier.
I still hope that @ned doesn't plan to completely abandon Steemit.com.