Because Crypto is still in its infancy stages, there is and will be a lot of gaming in the near future. Take it one step further, once a ICO has finished and coins hit the exchanges, there are sometime teams of people pumping/dumping coins to make a quick profit. This is part of deregulation I suppose. 

There are going to be a lot of hiccups along this road but steemit will be a good source of information for the simple reason that for every action there is a consequence. If you are gaming the system, people will no and you will quickly pay. 

Steemit still has many of its own problems to iron out, but the future is bright