Your observations are true and that is what is having negative effects on steemit and that needs to be reduced totally if we really want the steemit platform to keep growing and become better,,most people that do

not want to give votes to quality publications are probably not doing that because they are more

interested in self-voting or circle voting,but i believe that the hard-fork20 will discourage such unethical acts from such people and self voting will reduce alot and that would make the platform to be more rewarding...