I've built WordPress sites and had a following of like-minded readers, even found a way to monetize it. This is much more exciting to me, even if I run into casino junk.

But I also see your point. When I have introduced several good writers to Steemit, the first thing they do is a Google search and they find posts of people argueing about whale votes, power imbalances and new users not making any money. It's a real turn off as a first immpression.

The concept is strong and feature will eventually be added to smoothen the UI experience and I'm sure we'll be able to hide posts we don't want to see eventually.

Growing pains of a new platform. The developers must feel like god feels sometimes when the whole world is praying for answers all at once. Until these enhancements are implemented, we'll just have to Steem on.