Well then check out @lichtblick.
Posts flowers everyday, trades votes and has one of the highest reps on steemit by now.
He even agrees that his content is shit and he just posts something, so he can vote on it.
Easily made more than 100% ( in vests ) since hf18.
Trust me: n^2 could have potentially solved this issue.

If you don't make it a philosophical question whether posting rewards should be for good posts or for stakeholders, then it's pure game-theory;

Posting rewards for stakeholders without good content would be abuse, because it tries to play the rules.
The solution also comes through game-theory: n^2.

If you don't trust me, listen to @dan who invented this whole thing here and basically writes the same.
I am not as smart as him, but came to the same conclusions.