Hivemind/Communities
It is again the problem: Do you want to enrich the community or do you want to enrich yourself?
Selfvoting is not good for the community, but profitable. Boosting is not good for the community, but profitable. More downvoting would be good for the community, but it is not profitable.
Not sure how @dan was thinking it would ever turn out any other way. Steem has the exact problems I thought it would have when I heard about the project.
But hey - I got free Crypto! So Hurray! Right?
Dan was extremely naïve. He thought all people are good and care about their reputation. In reality, the crypto world attracts greedy assholes. All they really care about is getting rich, and they'll abuse every last system to get there.
Communities can give people access to the content they really want, so those who aren't so obsessed about the money can use the platform for what it was intended for - a social network.