Interacting with people is the main reason that I am here. Everything else is secondary. I do believe that a lot of people are not interacting.
There is an incentive for people to upvote people based on what they think will earn them money. I am sure there are people upvoting without even opening the post. Even if you look at this post for example it has 43 votes and 41 page views:
So we know with certainty that there are some people voting on this post without even opening it. They see that this post has made a certain amount of money and it is somewhere around the 22 to 30-minute mark and they try to hop in and get curation rewards. Of course this only works if you have a decent amount of Steem Power. If you have low SP it is really hard to make money on curation. I have been here for about two weeks and I've only made 0.01 SP in curation. I don't think the post that I vote on are bad, but its just my votes are not worth anything, lol.
The sad thing is that I actually read the post. The bots that have a lot of SP behind them don't read the post and their votes are worth 100s of times more than my vote. What is zappl by the way?