Yes I do agree with you that the current ranking system is a bit out of track. So my answer would be

• It should be improved

I would suggest we look at models that search engines have used. Such as assigning a domain authority (DA) and content authority (CA) rating to individual steam pages. These ratings would be used to generate a quality score (QS) for individual posts. People could search for post with the certain level of QS. . Your reputation would still play in general front page listings however you can also search for quality score level based on likes you receive from authors with a high domain authority or continent authority.

I'm not an algorithm programmer though so how to do this I have no idea.. lol