Great stance, thank you for sharing!

I think that when it is our most Hearfelt vision to see Steemit mass adoption then we have to compromise on certain levels. That doesn't mean of course that we need to fall into the other extreme immediately and make this platform hostile and full of spam but to accept that mass adoption virtually inevitably entails the signing up of people who post for self-promotion, selfies or just random stuff. This IS already taking place on the platform to some extend but this is from my viewpoint not collapsing the platform but one of the main keys to make mass adoption a reality. If we don't like that trend, ok, but then we shouldn't say we want mass adoption. We cannot expect the entire world to become "high-quality" bloggers.

There is no need to attempt to make the platform fit for certain type of people, because it is exactly this attempt which pushes away people. I think this even starts when people oversensitively downvote people who just write "I like your post" and dismiss it as spam.