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It should, but it's debatable if it has or not.

If you can up-vote your own post to the tune of $100, 10 times a day, why put the time in to create a masterpiece? You don't need votes from others.

If you cant attract more than 5 views to your post after writing a masterpiece, what's the point in spending the time doing this?

Sorry, we are moving away from the context of your blog a little :)

It's no problem because this follows along the line of behavior with money.

But yes, sock puppet accounts and self-voting makes it hard to see if this is improving content creation. You see people that are lazy to put effort into creating content just to get rewarded. Even having bots to just upvote whatever to get curation rewards without looking at the content.

Indeed. So the solution?

Go all in with Steem Power, get noticed by people with similar steem power, jump on the voting gravy train / circle jerk .... get out before it comes off the rails.

:(

That's a great sollution to the other post! Connect to others with the same Steem Power!