Hive makes it possible for people to receive "blind/auto" votes due to its feeless nature. You're suggesting that posts that no one sees/no proof exists that anyone is consuming, should blindly get excessive support because a few whales want those accounts supported excessively in comparison to others and in terms of share of the daily reward pool.
We don't have a viewcounter on most front-ends but I've never downvoted posts to lower the rewards without doing my due diligence to check history of the account's engagement levels on their posts, viewcounter whenever it existed (3speak, peakd) or checking their websites, other socials to see if links to their hive posts exist in any shape or form. As I mentioned when we first started discussing this, Pakman for one did attempt to get involved and was quite active in engaging with people engaging with him. I doubt I downvoted this account to begin with.
There were however other smaller "influencers" receiving massive votes as well where I saw very little "activity" other than cross-posting and speaking up first when some small downvotes occurred. Reading your other comment now I very much disagree that I downvoted excessively to the point where I zero'd out rewards except for a few times where I maybe lost my temper due to lies or purpose assholery.
Let me check to back up some of those claims above since you keep going on about this.
I appreciate your intent to be factually based. However, you're simply not noting the reality that DV's are taxation. They're appropriate for spam, scams, and plagiarism, because those are essentially criminal acts that require censure. The code allowing DV's for any reason, or none at all, deranges the very basis of social media and has produced the abysmal user retention Hive has experienced, literally worse than any other social media platform of consequence.
It needs to end, so social media can actually experience censorship resistance no centralized Web2 platform can produce. Twatter was actually forced to be censored by Starlink because those are centralized, and Telegram now has to deliver IP addy's to law enforcement for the same reason. Hive can't be extorted in that way, but because of unrestrained taxation Hive is even worse than either of those Web2 platforms.
You don't need to approve of speech to enable social media to prosper. Speech you vehemently disapprove of is critically important to free speech. Same with me. That's the point of free speech. The point of social media enabling free speech on Hive is that creators can be emunerated directly for their speech, and flagrant punitive taxation utterly prevents that potential from being achieved, and this kills the Hive.