I tend to agree with that, but it seems that some people don't. Actually, more people seem invigorated by the new free downvotes to curbe that sort of behavior.

Sure, those people seem to stick to high value posts for new, but I wonder if they'll also start moving towards the lower payout posts. I don't know if you check out some of Exyle's video's, but in one of his latest ones he talks about how Steem is getting "less fun", because you can't even post short content anymore (a couple of pictures for example).

I'm not a big fan of that, the whole point of a social media website is the ability to share what you want. Sure, spamming plagiarized pictures is obviously wrong, but now people take offense to posting original pictures as well, if they're not accompanied by a long article.