I take it since you're new you're not aware of curation trails, basically the amount of votes doesn't mean anything on hive. Compared to other blockchains transactions here are free and only cost resource credits which most accounts have, even small ones, so they can at no cost follow other votes and apply their votes on whatever they vote. Then there's also autovotes on whatever people post, you can "follow" accounts with your votes with tools such as hive.vote. It's more about knowing who the voters are, how much stake they have and if they tend to vote automatically or manually.
Anyone could for instance have created 1000 accounts, set up a trail and constantly get 1000 votes on every post, but based on the stake it still could mean less than $0.01 rewards so amount of votes really doesn't mean much. It's all about comments.
I see. I didn't actually know it was that easy to tack on so many votes. It truly is all about the comments. Actual interaction. 😅