The cat gif probably adds more value (in drawing users to the site). People love cats. Can't resist them. Meanwhile people have been blogging about he same tired pro-choice pro-life argument since the 90s, and since that time do you know what happened? Popular (i.e. non-celebrity) blogging mostly died, and was replaced by modes of interaction people actually enjoy, like sharing cat pics or comments about their day.
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People who love cats are misguided (and, dare i say, probably witches). But i don't think the cat gif winning out is a bad thing (necessarily). Just that its an inevitable consequence of voting delegation/management schemes. With each level of separation between the person doing the voting and the person bankrolling the voting, the material that wins becomes more general, more vanilla flavored, more centrist.
Its like the kenysian beauty contest. At the first level, youre voting for the prettiest girl. Then youre voting for the girl you think everyone else thinks is the prettiest. Then, youre voting for the girl you think everyone else thinks everyone else thinks is the prettiest.
That said, my point would have been better served with an example not so tailored to personal tastes in content.
Say an impassioned argument from a trump supporter about militarism (or whatever the hell trump is supposed to stand for), an impassioned argument from a bernie sanders (the political guy not the steem guy) supporter, and a cookie cutter, middle of the road don't offend anyone Hillary clinton talking point press release. The clinton thing is the worse, and would probably get the least amount of votes if people were judging quality directly (at least in my opinion)
But as the source of the voting power gets further and further removed from the people actually casting the vote, i think Hillary gains ground against her two divisive competitors.
Maybe thats a good thing. but its a thing.
Which in a lot of ways, arguably, runs the world. Steemit can either join the train, or try to be about "real quality", and miss the train. At the moment we are largely missing the train (actually doing neither since the quality is mostly shit, and content that might actually attract a broad audience is shunned as too lowbrow).
I wasn't disputing your point about voting anomalies.