Dollarvigilante could literally post a photo of his shit, and it would be upvoted to oblivion
I get what you're saying, but you can't honestly believe the line above. Surely you have more faith in the Steemit userbase?
Personally I'm certain that if Jeff, Stellabelle, Dan, Ned or anyone else posted a literal shitpost it would not be met with hundreds of upvotes. It may be upvoted by a few minnow Steemophants ... or scatophile's though. ;)
And again, I get the point you're making, but I disagree vehemently.
Hey tuck. Thanks for your comment. I phrased that sentence with a fairly firm tongue in my cheek, a bit of poetic license. My point is simply that people are voting for what they think will do well, rather than what they sincerely appreciate. I think the overall system is working quite well, but could do with some tweaking to discourage this sort of "sport voting."