I love that this article champions integrity! Thank you, @krnel, for being real.

I've heard a lot of people trying to phrase a persuasive appeal to those who are disgruntled with the disconnect between how everyone says it's supposed to be and how it clearly is on Steemit. You don't have to be in it for low reasons like money or popularity to choose the obviously winning strategy. The feeling of "doing it right" is better than the feeling that something isn't right.

There's a sense in which, right now, each of us is asking every other person here to band together in trust. If we all choose the loser high road, we'll all win.

I do expect it will take a fair amount of intentional movement toward quality to counteract the observation that the way to be successful is to get a whale to look at your posts and upvote what you expect to trend. It feels really good to hear earnest talk of the need to upvote quality. It explains why we have to do the counter-intuitive thing, which does feel like the right thing, afterall.