As stated simply counting any vote as a like would result in manipulation of the data by someone using hundreds of useless accounts.
How is this different than one account being followed by hundreds of "inactive" brain-dead (removing the B in PoB) accounts on hive.vote? They have a ton of artificial weight behind their votes skewing the numbers.
One person saw your post and 200 people didn't see it, but voted. How is that a useful metric?
it's certainly different... but i'm also not saying the algorithms known as Hot and Trending are amazing at displaying the best content. I'd love to see better algorithms available.