Well, there's plenty of crap in hot and trending, and if you look at it you won't see my vote there.

The problem, from my point of view, is that people vote on big guys to see if they vote back or take interest in them.

They vote out of greed, not because of the content, and as many people do it, the big guys get all that reward pool and laugh at the newbies who are there commenting to see if some scraps fall from their plate.