I believe it will cause more damage in the long run also. You get some users with quite frankly appalling quality posts using many different boosters to punt their posts up to 10/20 dollars in value. It doesn't sound like an issue until you consider that hundred or thousands of these are effectively taking money from the reward pool that they would never have received based on the quality of their posts.
You are right too, you have to put in a bit of graft to build your followers and community to a point where people are voting for you and you are not just buying it.
I like the idea of the OCD not!