Steemit was a good platform but some greedy whales destroyed it by introducing the voting bots. I hope this doesn't happen in this platform that you are talking about.
Yes Steemit was a very good concept but it's gone because of these cheatings and I'm suspect it will collapse if no change like ban of the idiots is done. Users will scratch them the back and leave. Another interesting platform is Foresting but not live yet.
LOL, how can they ban people when it's a decentralized platform? I personally regularly upvote people who have way less Steem Power than me and I know a lot of people who do.
The real problem with Steemit is that good content can't be discovered easier and the fact that the trending page is completely controlled by upvote bots.
If Steemit Inc. can deal with the upvote bots and improve content discovery, a lot of the issues would be gone.