I have railed against auto-voters, self-voters, syndicate-voters, it doesn't change anything. People are free to choose what behavior they want to exhibit. I'm mildly disappointed that Steemit isn't the manor on the hill that I first thought it was. As I learned the platform, I was convinced that it was going to reward hard work and consistency, it seems that way, but kinda isn't.

Granted, every nickel I make off Steemit is a nickel I didn't have before. No complaints that I have a decent bit of steem that would not be possible without Steemit, but it would be nice if the gaming the system could be cleaned up. Decentralized or not.