Hi @thatsweeneyguy, found you through our @steemitbc group
I fully agree, but behaviour is a consequence of the incentive structure, moral judgment does not come into it. I my latest post I make a case for more heavily weighting comments for payouts, since that is a better signal for quality content than upvotes, which can be easily gamed.
Maybe upvoting should remain allowed for visibility but you should not be able to assign your upvote rewards to your own posts. So an own vote becomes assigned to say the general reward pool of the curators not the author? No-one can design the perfect system from scratch that is why it is important that the Devs experiment with the algorithm to see how the system responds.
Appealing to morals or virtuous behaviour simply does not work that is not how humans are wired unfortunately. The system has to be designed in a way that constructive behaviour is rewarded by default. It is all still early days, I am sure that it will be figured out!