If I understand this right, and please anyone feel free to correct me if I am wrong on this by explaining, but all of these top voters have some of the best curation% APR I have seen on the platform.

Is this how they are achieving that?

For the people who are upvoting comments to fund the hbdstabilzer, what is the purpose of this? Why doesn't the HBD stablizer just request 86k HBD/day instead of 76k HBD/day so that nobody has to upvote those comments, and then the voting power from these curation groups can then go to actual content creators?

Am I missing something here?

You can see the curation APR of anyone by going here and changing the @name

https://hivestats.io/@blocktrades

EDIT: The above comments seem to conclude that the reason there is a 12% APR on HBD holdings is due to the stablizer.

That is not something I have kept up with, but I do see in my wallet it says it is 12% if I have the savings in HBD.

I am still unsure about what reason specifically is needed for upvoting comments vs just asking for more in the HBD payout via the DHF. To me, it seems like asking for more in the DHF would pass the proposal on the vote so I don't understand why comments are being voted on.