This is absolutely one of the things people are using it for. Look at the front page right now:

#1 New App to Secure Your Steem Account
#2 When do whales upvote? (includes open source tool that analyzes voting)
#3 Steemtools.com registered over 50 third party tools for Steemit as of today. + updates
#4 steem.ws - The public steem api cluster

In the past a post blogging about finding and reporting a security bug got votes and earned good rewards, along with proposals, update releases, etc.

Of course that is not always dominating the front page. Sometimes there are Playboy playmates.