RE: Let's Talk About Quality Content. (Just Because I Can, And Because Everyone Else Does It!)
Voting is a very personal thing. We each get to decide what deserves a vote and that can be based on quality, friendship or a desire to play the system. As it stands the Steem community is far too small to really be considered representative. A few big players and the vote bots control most of the voting share. I stopped doing automatic votes as I want full control of what I vote on. There are people creating art, music, writing who I think deserve to earn more. For many of them it's their job whilst most of us are really just playing around in our spare time. It's possible for a busker with a smartphone to make more than a band who spent a year in the studio, but maybe that's what the community wants. Rewards do not have to be based on effort.
This is so true. It doesn't have to be based on effort and it rarely is. It's not often based on high or low quality either. Rewards are rewards. It would be impossible to analys how, why and when everyone upvote stuff, or what their motives are. Some articles will yield greater rewards than others, and that's how things are for most users. Autovotes is one of the things that makes some users earn more than others, no matter what they share.