So not only will the whales get fatter from massive curation reward payouts, but if they are active and known well they will also benefit from receiving transactions from users trying to get noticed and requiring any type of help. That just wants me to become a whale even more. Even though like @dantheman stated he doesn't really notice it, i think in time when the steemit user base increases and the amount of these so called transactions increase, it could actually become very profitable for the whales. The whales need secretaries. However i think in time if the word spreads that this type of transaction manipulation isn't yielding results, then it will eventually die out.