I understand that you have said you do not wish to emulate these places.  WHat you don't understand is that what you propose would absolutely be emulating those places.

twitter and facebook have objective rules that control voting.  The false premise is that you believe that an objective set of rules that control voting would make steemit different from twitter.  When, in fact, the opposite is true.  An objective set of rules would make us more similar to them.  Our system now is unique, and the only thing similar between voting on reddit and voting here is that we both use the same word to describe the action.

>That is an example of gaming the system. The system is not designed to PERMIT that because it is deemed acceptable. The system allows it because, @dantheman and crew haven't determined a way that they could address it.

No.  the system doesn't allow it.  Users casting votes allow it.  There is nothing at all that the system allows or does not allow regarding posting and voting (with the exception things like character and tag limits that are technical specifications).  You seem to think there's a TOS somewhere, or that Dan has the power to pass laws for the steem blockchain, but that simply isn't true.
@msgivings is allowed to post her plagarized material (if it was plagarized.. iirc it was just bad not plagarized)  and get the money from the reward pool for exactly as long as there are more people with more steem power willing to support her being allowed to do so than there are willing to oppose her.

That was precisely the method the designers intended to address it..   Let the stake holders put it to a vote and decide what we want as a community.  subjectively.