Improvements To SteemIt (To Make Browsing Easier)

I'm 90 days into my SteemIt journey now.

I absolutely love the platform and I spread the praise as much as possible. I share posts on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and often even mail an email list of 20,000 subscribers to attempt to spread the word and promote adoption.

It's become a bit of a new obsession of mine.

With that being said, there are a handful of things that I feel could really improve the platform. I have no clue what the best way to share my ideas for the platform are, other than simply sharing them on my blog here.

Here are a few of my thoughts...

• Add a Delete Button on Posts - I don't understand why we can't delete old posts. Especially when posts are often duplicated by mistake when SteemIt acts up. I understand not wanting to remove the content from the blockchain. However, I think a button that simply allows us to hide content from our blog feed would be beneficial. The content can still remain on the platform and on the blockchain but simply hidden from our blog's feed.
  
  
• Separate Bot Comments From Real Comments - It's a bit frustrating to see so many fake automated comments on posts. In the same way WordPress blogs can separate pingbacks from comments in the comments section, it would be nice to see SteemIt separate automated bot comments from real comments. It would just make it simpler to interact with real people and ignore the automated comments. I'm not sure if this is possible because I don't know if, in the code, there is any differentiation between bot comments and real comments. But I think it would be a "nice to have."
  
  
• Allow "lists" similar to Twitter - It's difficult to keep up with everyone I follow. I'd love to be able to segment the people I follow into lists, similar to Twitter. I follow people because they talk about cryptocurrencies or because they're great photographers, etc. I'd love to be able to create a list of cryptocurrency people that I follow and a list of photographers I follow and just view streams from each of those lists. SteemIt has a lot of issues with organization, in my opinion.
  
  
• Allow me to filter my language - I want to be able to exclude content in languages that I can't read from trending, new, hot, and promoted sections. Things like filters and lists will really help declutter SteemIt and help us get to the content that's most relevant to us and that we care about reading the most.
  
  In my opinion, the biggest hurdle that SteemIt needs to overcome is that it's difficult to find the stuff that I'm really interested in. It's just a bunch of giant cluttered lists that are mostly just junk. Allow me to organize the content that I want to see how I want to see it. Create filters and lists. Allow people to delete accidental or junk posts. Make it easier to spot bot content vs. real human-generated content. Combine all these and we'll be a lot closer to an enjoyable user experience.

  There's a long way to go and I have plenty more suggestions on the way... These are just my initial thoughts.

  I don't know the best way to get these ideas to the people behind SteemIt, other than sharing my thoughts and hoping that enough people agree enough to upvote it and share it.

  Anyway, those are my thoughts.

  I'm all in with SteemIt and love the platform. I'll keep experimenting and sharing my thoughts.

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