People are upvoting without opening the post. I think the view count is based on actually viewing the content. Minnows have very little voting power so that might explain a large number of votes versus smaller rewards. Whales have the most voting power and if they upvote your content you will see huge rewards sometimes. And the only bot I know of here is cheetah who searches the web to make sure steemians are posting original content. You probably already know all this. Have a good day. :-)