A big part of the problem is that curators aren't paid enough. The system was originally envisioned/created with a 50 50 split between curators and authors, now its gotta be close to 90-10 in favor of authors.

It shouldn't be more profitable for a whale to create a sock puppet account and upvote it than it is for them to curate honestly (which, ultimately, i think thats where these accusations are going).