When evaluating how good content is I subscribe to the view that people will naturally gravitate towards good content of their own accord. While I think Steemit is a great platform I think that it is still a work in progress and as a new user, I don't understand why whales have such disproportionate influence in terms of voting .
Another gripe I have is that while it is considered bad etiquette to upvote your own comments an entire ecosystem has grown up around paying bots to upvote your posts. I really don't understand the logic concerning this particular contradiction so if someone could enlighten me I would be really interested to hear the defence of voting bots.