They resteem stuff in order to make money off it, not for how good the content is. Thats kind of corrupt, don't you think.
You get a percentage of a the profits from a post that you resteem, depending on how many people you cause to upvote it.
I wish there was option on steemit to disable viewing the re-steems. A little checkbox to enable/disable resteems.
Another good option might be to have posts that are resteemed have a transparent color background on the home feed. A transparent colored background would allow you to faster scan for original posts from the people you follow.
OR maybe I just follow too many people. But I feel like people post a lot on here to "keep followers" or whatever. That being the case there becomes a lot of garbage in the feed.
Especially "Contest" posts (art contests usually), because people are often required to resteem the post in order to enter the contest. Theres nothing wrong with that because the post needs to generate enough revenue to pay the winner of the contest.
Maybe i shouldn't have written this, time will tell.