This seems like an appeal to the extreme or reductio ad absurdum.
I am not suggesting it is forbidden to vote for friends and family. (The extreme)
What I am saying is these persons voting for friends and family without regard to the content is not profitable curation for the platform. This can extend to communities or other groups.
I actually been working on bringing my brother to this platform and hope he will contribute music and other things but will only vote to what I believe is reasonable granted the contribution.
Most people don't give a shit about that sort of thing and I think the market will reflect that. We think people observe a bunch of circlejerkery is going to bode well? Not me.
Curation (when working properly) could be one of the greatest strength of the platform but currently it has become a mechanism of folks serving their wallet rather than serving the value of the currency.
It works fine technically but not for the purposes that it was intended in the WP that is gauging user contributions to the network. It's a broken economy where the few ride the backs of the many. I only persist in my efforts for the sake of the few honest people I know around here.
It is my hope to provide them an alternative to this current arrangement currently via a robust front end implementation. The current visibility via collusion (be it by bid bot or reciprocal voting rings) is less than ideal.
So voting "friends" is not forbidden. So there is no abuse.
Let me break it down more simply.
Voting (or flagging for that matter) based on identity is bullshit.
Voting based on content is legit.
Are you curating your friends content or are you just voting their content indiscriminately? There's a difference.
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jaguar, jaguarista, the jaguar is the whole zoo, it's a circle of votes. And I don't see your flags ... in fact! I see your vote.
You can't do sermons on this point.