Ya, there are TONS of people spamming, committing plagiarism, and making deals with some whale or another to upvote their shit-posts to $100s of dollars. Even just something as simple as a meme being "valued" at 5x what a well written article is; the whole point of the 7 days voting period is for us to upvote & downvote things to come to a consensus, or something like it.