I avoid and ignore the abuse as well but regardless of ignoring and avoiding the above is my answer to your question. I just don't see STEEM USD value reaching its full potential unless the ones at the top stop handing out massive upvotes on content thats worse than the stuff they downvote. Obviously this doesn't apply to everyone. I didn't realize how often such action take place until I decided to take a short but meaningful look into how often it happens some months ago. I don't care to look again to see if it stopped as I just do my own thing on here and let the chips fall where they may.

!BEER