It seems to fall somewhere between popularity votes, misplaced idea of getting rewardd for upvoting it or simply mindless upvoting for our fearless Dev.
Either way I'm sort of thinking it's a wee bit laughable at this point on both dan's and the communities behalf that we're just circle jerking some of the highest level account holders into positions where they can collect more money to dump on the market later after they announce news to stimulate buys.
I honestly hope I'm just looking into this all far to much and seeing things that perhaps are figments of my imagination.. Sadly I don't think this is the case though.