Too many community creations?

@penguinpablo has added community creations to his daily statistics and it reveals quite a wave of community creations:

There should be about 500 communities already. At that seems a bit much.

Don't get me wrong: communities are the best thing that happened to Steem since block zero.

However that many community creations in such a short time suggest a lot of half backed, half thought out communities are created.

I have seen this on Minds and GAB as well when communities where added. Both networks now have hundreds of dead communities.

And indeed a lot of communities Steem don't even have an avatar and subscriptions in the single digits. And also quite a few duplications.

I think @steem could have made community creations a little more expensive, like the creations of tribes, to make people think before creating Yet-Another-Kitten-Community instead of coining an exiting kitten community..

While I normally say that quality comes with quantity for communities that's not necessarily the case. Especially when there is no adequate search function to find the a high quality community within a sea of dead at arrival communities.

Mind you, the search functions on Steem has always been abysmal.