The problem is the whales don't give a fuck and they're too busy selling their voting power to people that don't realize they are taking curation out of the platform. Self voting isn't the problem, the problem is the reward pool has been destroyed by people paying 4-5 services to upvote their own comment and hope to break even while the price gets dumped because the people with the most stake in the platform aren't creating content and when they do they are just circle jerking their own voting power. Greedy greed is greedy and new users want high dollar value posts even if they lose money to buy them.