I share your opinion for most of the part. I'm seeing a lot of begging for followers and upvotes. They don't care about content and community but only for the money. Some responses are more pathetic then the well known "sucky sucky 5 dollah" level of things. Next is voting. All is based on money money money. 1 voter in the first minutes and most won't even read your post. Hence I've done it myself the first days. Yeah, another 5 cents..

I've build up more interest in content and community and this could be something special. I load up every month for several 10s of dollars and immediately put it into steempower. I've discovered minnowbooster and loaned out all of my steempower. That eliminates my thoughts of value for upvoting and now I only upvote the same as I would like on facebook. More fun, more honest en because of focussing on acting instead of the money I do earn a bit more and have a lot of more fun.