That's why I think auto voting should be disabled and only allowed if your following manual curation trails that focus on quality content. Would still get curation rewards for little effort just by virtue of following the trail.
I'm sure a strategy can be adopted where a couple of whales follow curie, a couple follow c-squared, etc and they rotate the front running account each week so they aren't "hard done" by curation rewards...
Maybe authors can start with the beneficiary to sbdpotato as well but that's assuming those that put in the effort with their posts will get a little bit more upvotes to compensate for setting the beneficiary...