Have to agree that it should be our job as well to upvote new and great contents. But downvoting when neccessary will be a key to keep this community fruitful.
At the moment, higher influx of new community members will bring more popularity here, but with limited 'readers' like us, I guess we'll have to deal with more spams then ever, LOL.
I'm just hoping, this system gets adopted by other social media outlets, and let this community be the juggernault that it deserves to be. But lets keep our feet firmly on the ground for now, and see where steemit brings us.