Wait! If I understand correctly, those whales discovered that they've been auto-voting some author's post right?
I feel that even after auto-voting, they were supposed to check back to confirm that they are voting for genuine authors and not spammers or plagiarizers.
I doubt I've been placed on auto-vote by any whale, I've not been receiving downvotes, it's just my regular reward.
What I don't understand is why it seems like the auto-downvote is affecting a lot of genuine authors too I guess.
I get the best would be for the whales to review their auto-vote them go back to down-vote users who don't deserve the vote...
My opinion.