I get what you're saying. If a post takes 5 minutes to read and digest but it has 20 votes after 1 minute because people are following after a whale, then something's up.

Hell, I've been guilty of that a number of times. I try not to, mind you.

And there's definitely progress on the voting bot front. But not enough. That said, the disparity between whales and regular users is perhaps an even bigger issue. Whales indirectly support a very superficial attitude towards content on this website.