I really hope that Steemit can become much more than a quick money earner for those from the 3rd world that just plagiarise mainstream media and offer little that is new and of value. I'd ideally wish to avoid the Facebook comparisons, but Steemit is probably a little too profound and meaningful for that kind of audience; it's not a place suited to one sentence posts of misspelt words and absolutely terrible grammar. What excites more about Steemit is not the Steemit page itself, but the spin-off sites, D-Mania, D.Tube, D.Sound etc. The latter services need to sort out their reliability issues to attract a larger functional and active audience though.