RE: Two Ways to Screw Your Hive Account .:. Walk & Talk Series

Are you sure the said whale auto-votes? Maybe it's a combination of manual and automated.

I know for sure they also manually vote because I received one vote from them in recent history, but only one. That didn't repeat. 😀

You are right, I have noticed certain accounts that are regularly upvoted by them, and, given the vote size, if they lose such a vote after a while they'll probably wonder what happened, when in fact it may be nothing that has to do with their content or them personally...

Author rewards often drives the type of content the author creates. It's a type of feedback, but quite unreliable. More reliable feedback, as you also said in your video is the one from meaningful comments. But comments don't always add to the payout (unless they get voted on), and if that's what people are focused on, then they will give more importance to the unreliable feedback given by the fluctuating author rewards.