@kevinwong- As an executive who has handled and set up from scratch some companies/ projects from the ground up, I totally appreciate the important point that you bring up. In the real world, most of the promoters and stake holders in the companies initially focus purely on the product and core functions like quality and manufacturing that help them get their product made. Soon, however, they realize that merely the product does nothing unless all the auxiliary support functions like finance, logistics, sales, HR etc. are set up. I have been closely involved with that. In the real world, setting up company structures (both internal and client facing aspects) is fairly easy because employees are mostly not autonomous. They follow a hierarchical structure, mostly defined by norms set over decades related to various management practices. As you correctly pointed out, in a crypto DAO, though creativity will about aplenty, control may become an issue and most of the growth sometimes happens in a very unstructured manner because each individual behaves in a very individualistic manner. In such settings, management by objectives (thinking of the overall objective and defining the roles of sub-communities and then of self) is not possible unless such training is provided right at the beginning. Therefore, as we set up a structure as envisioned by you, I would imagine having a mandatory 'trainee' period where new member are trained in a virtual training center on various aspects of operating in the Steemit environment as well as are made familiar with their own responsibilities to the community.

I really would love to get involved if a UI project is taken up. I am fairly savvy technically but found it very difficult initially to grasp most of the aspects of Steemit. As you point out, after almost 15-16 months after Steemit launch, many of the things going on in the community are not perhaps monitored to the fullest extent to ensure that the primary objectives of Steemit platform are not compromised.
I can not perhaps help with coding but can certainly offer my management related skillsets for evolving a structure.

Thanks for this thought provoking post. Kudos on the idea. Upvoted full

Regards,

@vm2904