It gives me this "feeling" that we had a tapeworm somewhere in the blockchain that was siphoning off rewards before HardFork 19 showed up. I have no idea what consensus everyone else has for the fork, but my initial reaction is.....
I hate to say this, but HF19 permits and possibly encourages a whole new breed of tapeworm: the self-voter. The huge numbers you're seeing right now are an illusion that will almost certainly vanish in the next week as people learn ways to automatically siphon the rewards to themselves.
Sigh... I hope not... but maybe... the system could work so beautifully if we took greed out of the equation.