Good idea geke

but you didn't consider the voting bots

As a few other people have mentioned, there are reasons as to why you wouldn't want to have to click an article and scroll all the way to the bottom to vote. It's convenient having it on that page. 

> The whole point of Steemit is to engage. It's a social network. We're supposed to be getting to know one another, sharing information, and forming relationships, not trying to make a fast buck clicking vote buttons on our feed lists.

Almost every social network lets you interact with the posts before you view the full content of a post. Why should steemit be any different?

> A lot of people complain that a problem here on Steemit is that many curation votes happen without the voter ever reading the content they're voting on.

I think the reason they complain is because of bots. But the thing is, bots don't visit steemit.com, they vote directly on the blockchain. That means removing the button from that page would do nothing to help the problem itself, and might just annoy someone who has a valid reason for that button to exist. 

Even though I may not agree, I appreciate and encourage the conversation!

I was just thinking this and was going to write a post asking the same question. Great minds think alike. Upvoted and followed. Thanks

I also think this is a great idea! The users who truly care about this community understand the vision of Steemit. We want a platform where good voices are heard and rewarded and bad ideas are left as is. We also don't want a click-bait site. Nudging people to actually look at what others are producing is important for the community to be steered in the right direction.

Also... who wants to write for no audience? The entire point of us being here is so others can appreciate our creations. It's a bit rude to the author who might've spent hours on a piece. Steem is always appreciated, of course, but so is an engaging audience :)

Is there a steemit app for suggestions?

I've heard this proposed before and think it's a no-brainer. For one thing, even though I always read the posts I upvote, I sometimes like an article so much I've rushed to upvote without so much as glancing at the comments. 

**More than once, I've had to remove my upvote immediately because the first comment proved it to be plagiarized content.** I don't mean cheetah suspecting, I mean someone linking to the article source in definite proof that the article was copied and pasted.  Now I'm even more careful than before, but I do worry because I know there are plenty of Steemarians who admit to upvoting articles they don't read. That means they have less of an idea what they are upvoting than they might realize.

I often open 20 to 30 posts at a time as my reading queue. If I know and trust the content of the poster, I will upvote it as I'm opening the post as it may be an hour or more before I come back to it.

Thanks I am new to Steemit and was kinda wondering the same thing. Still not sure how things work but trying everything. Thanks agan and good luck :)

I like it, you can up vote people you follow or up vote tags or topics you want to promote.