Hm... sorry to shill, and I'm sure you might run across it on your own in due time, but dmania's rival decentmemes.com is backed by netuoso and acidyo and emphasizes original memes and manual curation. They have future plans for a decentmemes curation team (I think, I could be misunderstanding their original pitch), and might be looking for delegation power in the future. Just something to think about, they haven't rolled everything out yet. I appreciate original, funny memes, and Star Trek and accidentally came across your comment so I just thought I'd give you a heads up for when they do have things set up.

And I'm definitely with you on the strangeness that is steemit when it comes to pointing out obvious things like the price of steem and SBD have been literally falling for months, it's like they want to think that it can sustain a price spike that's been coming from one exchange for forever.