Even though this is somewhat true, the true way of generating curation is the quality of content that one posts..and this has been verified by Whales.
Check out my post on this here https://steemit.com/steemit/@blueskyy/what-gets-a-whale-read-your-post-advice-after-experiencing-steemit-for-a-month-discussing-with-a-few-high-rep-steemers