Its like the kenysian beauty contest
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.