There is a lot wrong with steemit but people seem to have entrenched positions and refuse to consider other views. If you agree that the best content should rise to the top, then self voting, circle jerking and vote bots would all be banned. As they are not banned and people do these, I have no issue with doing them myself. If these types of behaviour were banned, I think steemit would be a very different place but it is what it is!