The steemit system is designed for curators and voters to make most money and rewards for voting on people who will hit a high number of earnings. Voting on someone not so popular will not make curators any money.
So what is the problem?
Its simple, When you offer more money for Voting on people that are popular, that's Exactly what people will do. This in turn lets most of the good articles from new people unrewarded because everyone will just post on who has a history of making a lot of money. This is what i see over and over, lots of good articles with no votes.
How to fix the problem ?
Change the system in away where everyone gets rewarded and more votes will flow to better articles.