Dave Letterman used to have a little section on his program called, 'Is this anything?' There would be a video of a performance or event or news article, and he and Paul would decide whether it was something or not.

Right now, I upvote a lot on things on Steemit because they are 'something', not necessarily because they are something I care about. It is truly overwhelming and somewhat depressing to sift through the ocean of nothingness and meta posts on Steemit. I mean, the amount of copy/paste, obvious no effort money grab, SBD/steem, steemit cheerleading, steemit voting fraud complaints, how to game the steemit system articles is mind boggling. The fact the community values what Exyle had for lunch every day at $200 says a lot about this(in addition to other things wrong with the platform).

Most non crypto freaks would just not stand for this type of thing. There's a lot of garbage on the other social media platforms, but at least most of the garbage could be considered 'something' to somebody, even if it's something you don't like. I mean, I'm putting the bar pretty low here.

I'm looking forward to the day where I can find enough articles of personal interest to fill my allotted steemit time, not feel the need to use my voting for general curation, and cut most of the meta posts from my feed. Although, I probably would still do some general curation because that's a thing I like to do.

So, thank you for sharing this shortcut to quality content. Maybe this is the only way it can work. Maybe I'm naive, and the monetary incentive on steemit is just going to cause it to be flooded with crap forever or until it sinks it. But, I hope people keep trying to make it better.