Thanks for your amazing response @williambanks. I didn't mean to imply that you were endorsing @msgivings. I certainly have experienced first-hand the impulse to upvote a person regardless of content and I imagine that it is what will win in the end regardless of anyone's intentions. I don't mind the popularity contest or even it being outsmarted. I know that you devote a lot of personal time to making Steemit a great experience for a lot of people. I'm doing that increasingly, too, and at the expense of my home's cleanliness. What I'm hoping to know..and maybe you said it but I didn't understand...is whether Steemit would be able to support a much higher number of users doing what @msgivings succeeded at. If so, I'm all for it.
Thanks again for your response. You're definitely one of the people making Steemit a wonderland of curiosities. :)