There was alot of accounts something like arun1, arun2 to 400 or 600. It's connected to spt tag. So even you get a monster-curator or steemmonsters upvote, get 600 upvotes. Seeing how followers and upvotes are here on hive, I would like to conclude that we are also effected by this mentality on hive but much lower effect here.
Followers or upvotes numbers doesn't mean much here though as HP determines everything which is kind of progressive approach for such a new technology.
People will be people, anywhere they go, so yes there will always be some of that mindset. 1 vote from 1 human is "lesser" than 600 votes from 1 human, even though it's the same result. One simply looks better and it's no secret people are superficial.