RE: I got a couple of questions about Steemit if you don't mind...
On your second question: I believe that the amount of influence that a vote has decreases after you've voted more than 40 times a day (at least that was the case several months ago according to several high profile Steemit members. And though there is nothing to stop thousands of members joining a non-quality based upvoting group who upvote in exchange for upvotes, the fact remains that the value of your upvotes is a measure of your steem power, which is earned through the value you put forth on the site. As to why a hundred or a thousand people who already have established blogs that provide real value (and which receive profit in return) would need or want to be part of a group I don't know.
I was however lucky enough to be part of a channel on Rocket.chat in which members posted and upvoted each others work in a quality based setting (which was definitely a boost given that it was quality based, and we were therefore engaged in a secondary form of curation, I believe.) - I hope this clarifies your second question @sinzzer - and if anyone happens to know that it isn't 40 upvotes a day before voting power diminishes please correct me!
Thank you for the response, it look like more people have these qeustions.
And am glad out fellow Steemians answerd some of them, like you.
But what is the Rocket.chat channel?
Is that a group who support each other?