What if we take a snapshot of the chain then have a way for current (or past) steemians to link or verify their account on the new chain and airdrop tokens or simply having the ability to repost (or be rewarded for) quality content that was created previously? The only issue I would have is allowing any stake derived from "known" scammers, vote farmers, plagiarists, ninjamine, bid bot abusers/users/owners, etc. which would be impossible without some kind or long drawn out and transparent review committee or something else ridiculous to make exceptions for the many types and kinds of "actors" especially since times in the past where certain actions (now frowned upon) were considered "the norm". But after starting the new chain with the best from steem (without losing prior "status") we could theoretically be off in the right direction.