There are people getting consistent huge votes from troll ranchorelaxo/haejin. Is that fair? They don't actually care about Hive.
To be clear, RR/HJ up-votes things that are trending.
Many of us who do care quite a bit about Hive and have put thousands of hours into the platform since it was steem, have the blessing of support from communities/individuals, and hit trending sometimes, end up receiving the occasional up-vote from RR.
Usually followed by a swarm of down-votes to (at least-but usually more than) counter that up-vote.
I'll comment separately on the OP, but I wanted to address that specific point.
RE: @smooth ruining this platform for all small content creators.