I've seen some pretty low value content get up voted pretty large amounts in the past.
And even "in the present".
They love to complain about "hive specific content" and yet the "trending page" still gets loaded up with "hive specific content" anyway.
I guess that's what people want to read.
Yeah, I usually don't up vote that content just because there is SO much of it, it becomes really difficult to distinguish from the crowd.
Yet. I don't down vote it either. ;)
GREAT POINT.