Well, its a bit of a double edged sword really - If I stumble on an older steemit blog post and I see that it has few upvotes its like a quality filter, so to speak, that tells me if I should invest a chunk of time into reading it. Thus if everyone is writing for the short term to get that built-in reward from upvotes it gets very repetetive content.
I think too man are so focused on the "hit piece" and the reward now, rather than building a following and thinking long-term.
Interesting to follow his discussion!
Brilliant Newby Comment :)