Can there be a countermeasure for contents of poor quality that cannot be classified under plagiarism but received huge upvotes from Friends?
That's a slippery slope, my friend. I will start this particular discussion first by asking you a question:
Lol. I take this back.
Well, it's an important question. I'm not trying to corner you in any way.
I like to start addressing it with a question I'm sure we should be agree with like "should someone who only adds a period in their article receive $100 Hive"? I think we'd both agree they should not receive that amount. They shouldn't receive anything.
Should someone with high VP self-vote their posts at 100% even once?
Well, to answer this question, we should look at it this way? , is it wrong for someone to upvote his post? , I don't think so.
Is it wrong for one to continuously upvote his post?, this is where the answer seems to be difficult.
Again, is it encouraged that friend upvote his other posts respective of the quality of the content?
It isn't wrong, unless it becomes excessive. It seems to hove around 9-10% of acceptability. Outside of that and downvotes typically occur throughout Hive. VYB won't allow self-votes to occur.
The same reasoning as above applies.
Ok, and the third question?
Are you still referring to self-votes? If that is the case, then no, it is not encouraged in the VYB tribe. The founder doesn't want any self-voting.
I mean Mr. A who happens to be friends with Mr B upvotes MR. B poor quality post simply because he wants to give monetary reward to a friend, caring little about the poor content the friend made, and with a hope of receiving same measure on his posts irrespective of the quality.