@stahlberg - you nailed it, I just posted about this very thing (no link). Steemit is broken. The decentralized nature is a wonderful idea, but now the algorithms have derailed and there's nobody around to fix them. Unless people vote honestly about the quality of the content there will be no steemit left before long because it'll be a useless wasteland with nothing but bots. People need to rid themselves the notion the upvoting and commenting on high-reputation posts is somehow better than posting on quality content. It's really unfortunate.