Agreed, it's not a good thing, and I'm going to leave it to the big brains to implement a better solution to the whales/upvote power/bots problem. Thanks for such a detailed article tho, and yes I read it before voting.
Yours and others (and my own waking thoughts) have me brain storming my own article for later.. generally I think the only way to make money here is by writing articles - but to make money you first need to spend a few hundred hours (maybe) commenting, voting, interacting, and drawing followers (small fish I mean). Hundreds of them, thousands... Remeber we're still in beta, and there might be millions of people here soon. Work on getting a following, then your articles will be upvoted. I hope!