I don't want to see ONLY essays.

I wasn't trying to imply this was your position. That's just an extreme example I use.

We need to be able to mute certain tags.

I agree, this is what is missing from STEEM. There's a use case for actifit, but it should be isolated to their app. There's a use case for posting a link and 140 characters to describe it, Twitter style. There are probably a ton of use cases that would make the STEEM blockchain more valuable, but make your feed look like a STEEMing pile of poop without proper filtering.

Thanks for the follow!