While there are many things that are going right for Steemit there are a couple of things that needs to be addressed before steemit is ready for mass adoption.
If you go to https://steemit.com/created/test you can see that there are many posts which are just radom test posts but are still getting upvoted. I saw a couple of posts which had more than 10$ pay-outs.
This is one such post I picked. https://steemit.com/test/@harrydenture/46ps1u-test
And as you can see it has upvotes and a 4$ potential payout. While there are so many new authors out there are finding it difficult to make their posts visible to the greater audience there are posts like this which are getting both the upvotes and potential payout. This somehow doesn't seem fair.
