People tend to put more accent on their strengths, which is fine in my opinion. Even in a social environment, there will be some who will act as they are alone or without caring for any interaction. Does that make them effective? Not if they need votes, and here in the steem ecosystem they need them. And if we're talking about optimization, it's much better to have relationships and a following which upvote your content and interact with you, than to upvote yourself.
Slightly changing the subject, I keep hearing the idea that once SMTs will be out, steemit and blogging will fade out in the ecosystem. What do you think about this?
I actually think it might strengthen the blogging as those who aren't bloggers will go onto other interfaces. I don't think it will fade out but, it won't likely be centre stage. the good thing about Steem is there is room for many diverse contents.