The only real "solution" to Steemit's problem of mental retardation infestation is to enable on-site ads or in-video ads, like Adsense for example.
I've been talking about enabling ads on this platform since day one of onboarding the hype train. The reply that I received instead from people on the Steemit chat was to build my own front-end to suit my needs.
Although, Adsense is not reliable either in the long run due to the increasing number of Adblock extension users, like myself. The only reliable ad placement option is sponsorship, by which you can toggle on and off your content's ads. This should perhaps override the existing 7-day timeframe of editing the contents.
Steemit encourages the propagation of shit-posts over interesting, quality, and well-written content or video because of this 7-day time frame to qualify for rewards. Quantity over quality is the modus operandi on here. It's nonsense!
Nothing to see here. People, move along and go back to your mainstream social media networks (wherever you came from). Steemit should go back to the drawing board.