Thanks updated.
yeh the lack of quality posts can be a problem so we need to get more people using it but you can use the search function to find a specific user. If the individual is not using it you can always invite.
The incentives for upvoting manually through steemit or any other front-end is not strong enough at the moment resulting in little organic voting going and most people just sell their votes instead.
So what SF has done is actually really ingenious and simple at the same time just that most people don't understand the concept or don't want things to change...
When you have more Steem Power you can choose the % of you vote so you can do 1% upvote if you like so it's not much of a commitment and according to @mahdiyari you only need to do 5 upvotes every 48h.
Thanks for the reply.
Maybe the message under the Manual Cutaion panel should be updated, as it says:
But what happens when you make less then 5 upvotes in 48 hours? You lose points?
no it's only that you won't be visible with your latest post (or edited post)