You’re right. Reviewing my feelings on this I discovered that my main “ugh, that’s terrible” feeling comes from the observation that a correlated set of people form a control system that wipes out the contributions of others not in a similar or larger implicit alliance. That doesn’t imply the solution is to vote independently of the total, though, as there are negative side effects like the one you describe.
You’re right. Reviewing my feelings on this I discovered that my main “ugh, that’s terrible” feeling comes from the observation that a correlated set of people form a control system that wipes out the contributions of others not in a similar or larger implicit alliance. That doesn’t imply the solution is to vote independently of the total, though, as there are negative side effects like the one you describe.