I think, but don't know for sure, that the fact I've worked pretty hard the past 3 years on Steem as a whole that the votes come in and inflate my rewards.

It's not fair or even logical that just because one bought a lot of SPORTS (I spent about 1000 STEEM initially) that they should continually plagarize and and put no effort in. Some of these accounts post 4/5/6/7 times a day and never comment - they are not here to interact with the community, but only to leech.