It was always there to invite people to vote without actually reading. It should never be there, but of course, today a vast majority of curators are probably gaming the system, who would be rather displeased by this omission.
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Well the true gaming of the system is in the bots but people can just as easily up vote as they scroll down the trending view which I think is a problem. It may be trending for a reason so just go into the article and read some of it.
Let's not get into a bots, that's a whole different can of worms! But yes, something needs to be done about the manual gaming too.