Matt, totally agree. And part of my issue is that you have some of the biggest whales delegating SP (which is a fine enough idea) to others who then create upvote services with ZERO discernment... which then ends up putting crap content on the same level as well produced, researched content.

I have nothing against the rich getting richer... it's HOW they are getting richer. The "big whales" could just as easily rent their 100,000SP block delegations to a known active manual curator as to a spam farmer running a shady upvote service. That's where my issue really is.