I was about to go to bed and saw your comment here. There is one thing that really stood out to me that you said. It was Quality Control.

Quality control is so important. The lack of quality control involved with the rewards pool and more importantly, the buying of upvotes is astounding.

By astounding I mean astronomical. This is coming from someone who knows all about quality control.

I was a Land Surveyor. I still have the skill to go do a Land Survey of your property. It is a skillset that I've retained and I won't forget.

Being a Land Surveyor requires so much Quality Control it's ridiculous. When I set a property corner, my accuracy needs to be within a few hundredths of an inch. 0.03. Even that is too much. We want 0.00 to 0.01 (especially with a property corner)

When I set the corner to a building, along with the height in which the concrete slab will sit at. The precision required for this is within 3 hundredths of an inch. Zero room for error. Quality Control is a must, because without it, the engineers build the corner half a foot into the easement. Then they have to knock the building down. Failing to adhere to strict Quality Control protocols is detrimental to any business. Steemit functions a lot like a business.

Before I pick up my equipment, I must perform a backcheck. This is by pointing a laser at a traverse point. If I am off by more than 10 seconds of a degree I have to document it, and try to find out at what shot I bumped my gun. A car driving by rattling its exhaust, or a harley davidson, could shake my gun enough to throw my traverse point off by 2 miles. Quality control is a must.

If you think you can overlook quality control, you're overlooking a key concept to a successful business.