Thank you for your most interesting comment, dv8, and apologies for my late reply. Only today did I learn (I am a Newbie) where to go to keep track of replies. I guess I got lazy from all my forum services which arrange to have an email messages sent to you when there are replies.

I take your point that branching away from the focus on media content might make the project unmanageable complex, while at the same time bringing up some serious competition that is perhaps best avoided for now.

With regard to showcasing and properly rewarding articles with valuable green content I am seeing a lot of complaints in posts that I have covered over the last several days. Moreover I was astonished to see a person with a huge following bringing to Steemit a few days ago about five paragraphs out of an article he published in Wired and he promptly got rewarded with the STEEM equivalent of 700+ dollars, due to the huge number of up-votes. The green content in that article is practically zero! So from where I sit, that is a huge discouragement regarding brining green content to Steemit.

So I'll just probably limit myself to commenting on stuff that other people do, and occasionally contributing articles that represent community service (see mine of today at https://steemit.com/stm/@lestatisticien/synopsis-of-steemit-community-members-views-on-issues-to-address-on-the-road-toward-a-successful-roll-out-of-smts ). 

Much as I have a strong distaste for the various sources of block voting to help the minnows, I don't think we have much choice but to use them!