You raise another point I saw firsthand. I read a long post from someone I am following, waiting till the end to decide to upvote. In the time I took to read it, there were several upvotes worth money that I missed out on. Not sure of a good solution, as I will not upvote until I know it appealed to me. It is rather meaningless at this point as my votes are not worth the same as many due to just starting. But I realize how few votes I have and am training myself only to give them for good posts. At some point this will greatly skew the amount of content I have just in my feed alone as those I follow grows. I will never just assume quality though, even if I am following the person. But I can see why many would as you suggest.

Thanks for responding, adding to the ways the system is designed to reward certain behaviors not conducive to rewarding the best quality.