I've enjoyed reading the introduction posts for 2 weeks now, and will continue to do so cause I feel its better for new legit users to get a warm welcome with votes and comments instead of just comment bots and no votes which may discourage them from being active. Although I agree that the posts some times got too many votes and value, I encourage young minnows like myself to also welcome them.
But like you said most of the value shouldn't go to those posts, and this will also remove the need for fakers to continue spamming that tag.
Anyway, great response time by the team! (the thread about the identity theft was created just yesterday) Glad to be a part of this all!