Yes. HF 19 has been a success, the community will eventually find a way to flag people abusing this collective gift. We just need more "seriousness" on the network and more quality articles and comments. Upvoting will find it's way.
Only one thing I have to mention and that is being the first on Steemit doesn't mean you should circle jerk with other people upvoting each other while some great articles and authors are left behind. If people want this thing to last they will think about 2018, 2019 users.
So, do you want 50$ now and 5$ next year. Or do you want 50$ now and 500$ next year?
Thanks @timcliff
I agree. I found that many of the new users to be great bloggers. Some of them have a very high reputation and many followers on other platforms. They deserve a better chance here. HF19 has given them a part of a chance, but elder steemians should do their part too.
10 votes is too few to support new accounts. This is why self votes have dramatically increased in proportion to upvotes of others content. People are used to not having enough votes to upvote content anyway, so they might as well just self vote.
Remember that no new users can use their sliders to have more votes, so they are all limited to 10 votes a day, or VP that doesn't recharge.
How do you suggest fixing that?
Good perspective, agreed.