Hmm I actually feel that the responsibility lies more on the voter/curator instead of the person posting. I think it's really up to the individual to decide whether he/she wants to write "good content" or just "spam", but as voters, we should exercise our right to vote responsibly.
Personally, I do have some "low effort" posts e.g. zapfic stories which are usually just 50 words. I do it for the fun, and as a mental exercise to hone my creativity, and I am totally fine if these posts don't get much upvotes. I still do them when they organise it, because I just want to participate in the Freewriters community's activity. Maybe I am fortunate that I have a day job which pays my bills, and Hive is more of a hobby to me, and definitely not an income source (looking at the votes for my posts, lol!). So I am not so "strategic" in terms of trying to hunt for upvotes.
P.S. I am not sure if I am the only one. I realised videos on Hive posts/3speak takes extremely long to load for me. It was quite bad today. I think it took more than 3 hours (no kidding!) to load this 11 minute video, so the video plays for 5 seconds then pauses for a few minutes then plays for another 5 seconds and so on. It's the same with the weekly Liotes videos as well but it's the worse today. I don't have issues with other websites or if I am watching Youtube. So am not sure what is the issue, is it with Hive/3Speak's server or something or some node issue?
!LUV