I absolutely agree with everything written in this post.

We have platforms like Utopian which is trying to promote a certain standard for a specific niche in the community. Then there are the random whales who only vote up specific tags but they do so in a very indiscriminate way. I have seen some fairly absurd content go viral in a few days while quality posts have been burred for no apparent reason. It can be very hard to tell how much of this is due to lack of visibility and luck versus complacency and deliberate sabotage.

Ultimately, I believe it comes down to whether or not a large percentage of the people with power choose to use that power to build something rather then squander their votes on garbage for the sake of getting more power.

Again, it seems like there's a lot of both on this platform.