Wow, it's almost as if you didn't actually read my post. I never talked about "good" content. I am a musician and I am aware that quality is subjective. That is why I specifically avoided the words: "good, bad, or quality".
Instead, I very specifically chose the word: "effort".
Someone taking a picture from google or pixabay and having that be the ONLY thing in their post is a low effort post....period. If you don't agree, then feel free to use your own stake to upvote content like that.
I also have a section in this post that specifically talks about how I feel that intricate blogs are not necessary and how my belief is that type of expectation would prevent mass adoption...so I have no idea why you are bringing up being a journalist as part of my "standards".
Next, I never said that I would ONLY be upvoting people that I know. And "knowing" them is not the only requirement. However, this is a Community token so yes, I will be rewarding people who are part of the community.....which is my right to do as it is MY stake. Just as it is your right to do whatever you want with your stake.
It is interesting to note that your comment talks about how it is wrong to be judgemental, yet here you are judging me...quite unfairly.
It has been my goal to help new users and creative steemians since I have joined Steem. For almost 2 years I have run 2 creative contests per week and I also do a weekly music curation. I also run 2 contests a week on Steem Monsters for art, music, and fiction. I started the Hive account@msp-music account to help musicians and artists. And I also donate to Open Mic every week.
During the bull run I was giving away 80 Steem per week to creative steemians. I changed that to 40 Steem a week during the bear market, and now I'm giving away Palcoin. I am also now manually curating with Pal every night. I could just vote a bunch of people that I know using an auto voter.....but I'm not doing that. So don't come here on my post and talk to me like I'm not helping people.