It depends on what the public wants and they may prefer cat memes to actually useful stuff. That may be what they vote up. Hive/Steem can be a bit different though as a lot of voting is done to optimise curation rewards. This post is a good example of this as it got a lot of automated votes whilst having no comments. I tend to direct my votes where I think they are deserved. Following trails tend to favour parts by those who have done well before regardless of what they post.

Not saying this post is without merit :)