Keep in mind that SteemIt is a frontend website for interacting with Steem. If you think SteemIt is not delivering a valuable product or needs to be improved, it is very well advised to start your own frontend website for interacting with the blockchain.
Or, the code for Steem and SteemIt, as well as the website code, are open source and available at https://github.com/steemit for anyone to make issues or feature requests.
We want the backend (Steem) to be functional moreso than a frontend website. I think in order to get the best of both worlds, we shouldn't rely on the Steem devs to make the best frontend website possible.
As for the calculations, again that is all available from public data either in the Whitepaper, the source code, or on the blockchain. If you have ideas for clever ways to display this to users, even things such as a sketch or drawing of a website, then please do share. I am always looking for ideas to program, but people first have to speak up and explain what needs to be done.
As for your comment about Reddit or another competitor "just adding a blockchain voting system" that would be interesting to see. And competition is not a bad thing.
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