love the post and the fact there are so many comments here, I'm sure you remember the Whale Voting Experiment a while back :) I just went back to check one of my personal favorite posts, I can't say it's really fit for this issue since the times were different, still people were out with pitchforks just as much ...

https://busy.org/steemit/@j3dy/whale-wars-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-or-stay-tuned-or-profits-or-community-or-pleas

https://busy.org/steemit/@j3dy/save-those-whales-save-those-snails-a-series-on-steemit-full-on-part-a

anyways some things never change, I just hope the ideas shared get seeded

currently I have no idea why all of a sudden it's a problem, authors have been getting high rewards almost always, constantly "draining" the pool :D and cashing it out doing whatever, to be fair the only time people were having a stronger vote was when the whales weren't voting and those two months or so were marvelous, with the exception of the damage being done to established authors

it's hard to get along :D what do you think @taskmaster4450 ? Also this comment goes to @fireawaymarmot coupled with a thanks for the resteem :)