This is certainly a worthy cause, and we should invest effort in creating better tools for finding good content with less effort. But I don’t see this as a silver bullet solution to this problem right now.

I see this as a silver bullet. People come to content powered sites for the content first and then for interaction under such content. Right now it's the completely opposite. I do not even bother searching for content, other than scrolling through the feed until i stumble upon something of an interest.

If as a community we want this site to grow and scale think at least of Reddit, and we must have the tools that allow to search for wanted content specifically. Then and only then it would be viable to create quality content as it can be discovered and appreciated accordingly. As of now, it's just still circles and it is normal since the system is designed to work this way.

Create discovery so people can find content, then people will put more effort into content creation, then manual curation will be much much easier and fun process instead of "tedious work"task.

Why do devs constantly try to reinvent the bicycle and fail to implement tools that already works elsewhere and proved the concept of content websites? I get that crypto devs are smarter that ordinary devs, and that might be the reason, that it seems too simple to work.

Also, when creating such tool, add a separate optional field for keywords, unlimited keywords, that would be used in search. It would not hurt anybody and for people that want their content to be discovered that would be a tool to showcase their work and it would also serve a great purpose for content discoverability.

Final note : as long as people will not be coming to hive for the content forget scaling, it will not happen no matter how much you tweak the reward mechanism. Do basic things first.