Quickly: To me, it's not necessarily trying to "beat" human greed, but to Deter. If someone has to spend a significant amount of effort up-front to create an algorithm to "beat the Steemit defense", there are going to be fewer occurrences, and they will be easier to identify and manage.
Anyway, I'll leave this discussion for another post.
For this particular topic discussion, the general point has been made. Let's work with what we have at the moment.
(Which means, let's all use human power to decide what is good and what's not, and upvote or flag accordingly)
Agreed!