When you say "spread it out" thought - ned voting doesn't add more money to the pool. It just changes how the pool is paid out. If he upvoted 10 people for hundreds of dollars, then all of those people would get hundreds of dollars - but that would be thousands less for other authors. I suppose if he upvoted 10 minnows who all wrote really great posts that would be good, but most likely it would end up giving huge over-payments to a lot of people (at the expense of people who deserved it more).