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and yet you ignore that 90% of his commenters are the same people, and they make the same pointless comments repeatedly. not sure i was on board with bernie, but it appears he is pointing out a true problem.

But isn't that more an issue with social media. It seems what happens on Twitter happens on Steemit, and the same on Reddit. It's just this has a financial feedback component.
It seems like his is popular with a specific group of people.
We could accuse Kim Kardashian of the same thing on Twitter

indeed, if a popularity contest is what we wanted, that is what we have. in the end it becomes up to the users, and if they are idiots, then we will have idiotic content.

Very few things on the Web end up as they were originally envisaged. The crowd has a tendency to grab it and run down the road, laughing maniacally.
Human beings do not behave rationally.

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