Here is the thing, are there any written steemit rules? If a whale creates a separate account and uses it to post, is he or she breaking any law or unwritten rules? No, not really, it's more of an ethical and moral question than anything.

I am by no means siding with that kind of behavior (if it is going on). Steemed said it well when he/she said:

Advisement: as new rules are implemented, new disequilibria arise, and smart people will find ways to capitalize on those disequilibria. Instead of complaining about free market actors, complain about the rule makers. I know that falls on deaf ears, but at least I said it. Remember: they are whales for a reason.

In some cases, I have noticed it be annoying and obvious when just about every single post is upvoted by the same whales. It is not doing Steemit a good service as a whole by simply upvoting the same accounts over and over regardless of that posts content.

Once again, what rules are there that are being broken, though? Does it suck ass, you damn right, especially when authors feel like they have spent a great deal of time on their posts to receive nothing to very modest results in contrast to some of these accounts being upvoted daily for some pretty basic posts?

On a side note, anyone who thinks Steemit is all about uncensored free content during a time when giants like google and youtube are censoring material or limiting rewards are fooling themselves.

Right now Steemit is censored mostly by whale votes, any posts that do not receive a whale vote mostly end up in the eternal void of shit seen be very few. Simply, the system right now is a form of censorship.

It's a rough ride on Steemit right now for many, it is up to each individual creator if they want to stick it out or not. I think over time these issues will dilute themselves out, but I also believe payouts will be severely diluted and might not be worth a authors time in the future, but those are my own personal observations.