It is a simple post, but at the same time extremely complex.
As already mentioned in the comments above, I believe that both trails and you vote for a person you like are valid, because as the name itself says, we are a "hive" so it provides unity and companionship, and we end up having some specific community ties different and that's too good, because we create our own identity.
However, on the other hand, as you yourself mentioned, there are people who unfortunately look for ways to "win" easily, I see many posts of penny giveaways, which the person ends up earning more, or posting a short text of less than 100 words, this ends up "burning" the community a little for outside investors in my opinion, as it always ends up paying "x " value for a post the times it was made with crtl+c and crtl+v.
excellent post! upvoted and reblogged