"Thought provoking topics tend to get whashed away by boobsavy content about very mundane things. Then again, thats how it sort of goes #IRL ".

Could not agree more with these two sentences!

But as I said to @positive before: True, people who command more votes will still command more votes. And do so by being invested in the network, either with time, knowledge, and/or money. Whether the mathematics/algorithm is fair or not is up for the user to decide.

Maybe the steemit network prefers "boobsavy content about very mundane things" before thought provoking topics? Which it has the right to do.

If that will remain true for a longer period I believe other networks will spring up to fill that void, and to foster a more thought provoking discussion.