>The thought process is going probably something like this: "Well, I've exhausted that msgivings persona, so now I can create a different persona, with different hobbies and interests, and as long as I fool the whale curation bots for a while, I'm good. I'll just take out the funds anyway."

Or worse - most of them can be writing about the same topics and still getting the same whale votes. We should ask ourselves how that's possible. Same content, same whales. Same whales, same content. (Watch for the ones who get the most defensive when the fraud is identified and mentioned.)