I've been on SteemIt for about 2 weeks now and learned and experienced a lot. The platform has the potential to change the world, but I've also spotted a lot of significant problems! This is my list of annoyances:

1. No alternatives for www.steemit.com

Don't you hate that error 500? There should be at least one backup site (with at least the same functionality and ease of use as steemit.com).

2. The rich are WAY too powerful

Buying popularity or power is the last thing we want in a decentralized environment. If we wanted that, we would go to Facebook or some other place where people have the power to manipulate popularity.

3. New users are WAY too powerless

Not only are they probably completely clueless about cryptocurrencies (blockchain, decentralization, cryptographic keys, security, etc), they also have zero impact. Their votes are worth much less than $0.01, they can't make any curation rewards and are therefore completely reliant on content creation.

4. Plagiarism

The constant identical copies of content is really starting to piss me off, especially when they are coping 1000 lines from other websites! The blockchain doesn't need to contain 50% of the internet, does it? Also things like news, funny or interesting video's are annoying. You already have Reddit to post those. You won't get rich by copying other people's content, ever. People want YOUR content, your thoughts!

5. The voting/curating algorithms

This is an extremely large and difficult topic. I wrote multiple articles about it already:

• SteemIt curation rewards strategy for beginners
• SteemIt voting algorithm problems and solutions from a programmer's perspective
• Current SteemIt curation reward algorithms will cost you money

6. Trending of low quality content

The constant posts of women posting pictures of themselves and a lot of the introductions are making way too much money. I guess it's fine for now, but if it's still the same in 1 month it's probably starting to be problematic.

7. Bots

Don't you hate the constant "Hey, welcome!", "great post!" bots? Luckily i usually see those comments grayed out in no-time, good job curators!

8. No follow feed on steemit.com

How weird (and frustrating) is this? Having a follow button but no (simple) follow feed?

9. People starting group vote sharing tags

Today i literally saw one of them say "i'll upvote your post, regardless of the content". As if the quality isn't low enough already?

10. It's addictive!

I'm afraid this is much, much more addictive than Facebook :)