For what it's worth, these incidents seem to come from a few huge votes, not wide community acceptance. I suspect most of the voters in our case study here did not even look at this piece, they simply saw something hit Hot or Trending and thought they would hop on the train for some curation rewards.
That's exactly what I say earlier. There's a lot of shitty content that earns money just with promotion and selfvotes.
Not self-promotion but for a larger POV: https://steemit.com/steemit/@adrion/you-won-t-believe-how-steemit-changed-my-life-3
For what it's worth, these incidents seem to come from a few huge votes, not wide community acceptance. I suspect most of the voters in our case study here did not even look at this piece, they simply saw something hit Hot or Trending and thought they would hop on the train for some curation rewards.