Most people are not doing this on purpose. I contact a lot of people when I see this, and they did not know what they were doing. In this case, I thought I had reached out before, but now I see I had not.

In the case of the people going big in the first 15 minutes - SOME of them are trying to alter the payout percentage. If they can get a lot of votes in the first 15 minutes, the post will pay out with less than 15% for the curators. More for them - less for the people who vote for them. But most of those people only have bot votes anyway.