"but already have upwards of 10-20 votes."
I see this less as trying to ride the whale and more "these people voting are fairly new and have no idea about the 30-minute rule".
You're bringing in people who have been trained, through other platforms, to click "Like", the "Up" arrow, or the "Thanks" button whenever they appreciate the content, agree with the content, or find the content funny...and then they move on to the next post.
So that's what they're doing,
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Discounting all the bots, of course.
My point was that there's no way they could have read the content within the first minute. They're just upvoting based on prior earnings by the author. And there's no doubt that they don't understand the 30-minute rule. They just think that they'll be getting rewarded, apparently.