> Players can drop links into #sm-post-promotion-only as long as they are about Splinterlands. By doing so they are submitted for review and those that are accepted will be voted on. Our team will also just be voting stuff we like with our account.

Sure the core team will not favor their buddies and own stuff? That would be the pattern I'd assume a human to behave like. Voting circles are a natural answer to staked SP.

I don't wanna call out people, but I've seen some very low quality and effort posts been upvoted by huge whales lately. By the very same whales who are busy with automated downvoting to their maximum extent. (One of the whales starts with O and one other too.)