Gee, do you think there just might be something in the design to prevent that obvious failure mode? I do.

>I never voted for @armen's posts.

Your voting power is being used to do so - as it is also being used by steemed on many of these sock accounts. This is from @armen's latest post:

steemed	1,483,805,015 B	9.61%	17,846,341,587,042	100%	2016-09-22T08:42:18
itsascam	540,444,093 B	3.50%	16,596,368,090,896	100%	2016-09-22T08:42:21
smooth	0 B	0.00%	31,353,015,240,496	100%	2016-09-22T08:42:21
steemroller	43,412,005 B	0.28%	1,950,949,980,987	100%	2016-09-22T08:42:24
smooth.witness	0 B	0.00%	6,032,823,564,732	100%	2016-09-22T08:42:24
dashpaymag	3,425,422 B	0.02%	159,678,290,532	100%	2016-09-22T08:42:27
donaldtrump	1,567,240 B	0.01%	73,348,600,117	100%	2016-09-22T08:42:30
lovelace	1,256,025 B	0.01%	58,915,785,446	100%	2016-09-22T08:42:33

> I do think poker content that isn't high level strategy based on game theory has value. 

I agree.  I don't think good poker content has to be strategy (or advanced strategy  if it is), but I do think if it purports  to be strategy, it shouldn't have basic, egregious, absurd errors (for example, saying "this hand should be played this way regardless of stack sizes, game, table image, etc."  Or "I'm  right becuase (insert famous pro here) did this in a video ten years ago.  

I've flagged @armens posts because I think they are overvalued, and will make steemit look ridiculous to literally every single member of the very wealthy and very active internet poker community.   

Also,   there are whales clearly flagging any reply to his posts that is critical or expresses disagreement, even if it is expressed respectufully.

Its one thing, IMO, to get paid too much to give crappy poker advice and make steem look foolish to every single serious poker player in christendom.  Its a much worse thing to get paid too much to give crappy poker advice  and make  steemit look foolish and have pulpit where your  benefactors are flagging anyone who presumes to express criticism or disagreement.

I'm not really into telling others how to vote, but IMO @armen's posts are far more deserving of a flag than this post.  though i do not agree with the premise of this post, at least here I am free to express that disagreement in a respectful way.  

I hope the whales will take a good hard think about flagging them.

the greatest challenge remains a way for good content to leap forward...it's still very difficult even with many initiatives. once that will happen we won't need investigation because writing good stuff is hard and time consuming  a.k.a costly!