I have been following @positive closely this week and I can personally say that he is leading one of the strongest campaigns towards curation and valuable content that I've seen around. Just check #doyourpart. I know that some messages are rough around the edges but sometimes a firmer nudge needs to be given to wake people up from the state of acceptance we are.

Something's got to change with Steemit.
What exactly? Judging by how old Steemit is I'd say we're still learning and defining it. But we have to do it right. We have to stop promoting non-value and surface the posts that are worth reading not worth voting for the Payout reward they bring.

Also, successful steemers need to get involved more. Everyone's thinking about (and blaming) the old whales. Not only them. People who recently have had thousands of steem paid in rewards need to get involved more in curation and not dedicate all their time to posting the next 10k article. I'm not saying they should stop posting or that they're not curating but they started just as everyone from the bottom and should know how hard it is to get your stuff noticed. Everyone should do their part in curating, and I think that with larger SP value in the wallet comes a bigger responsibility.

I edited the post to change the @ with the # on the tag above and I also want to take this opportunity to also send a salute to @anonymous who I've seen blazing through posts curation in the past 2-3 hours. I salute you @anonymous!