Thanks for the response @fitinfun...my guess is that most people don't know what you do (I didn't until this post!) So if most people believe the fallacy then it is still a big problem - if not with the algorithm then with messaging.

Maybe it's as simple as showing in the UI how much of a curation reward you've earned for your vote so far on a post. Right now I think it's like you said - people just see big numbers on popular authors' posts and want to get in on it.