Ooof, I remember him from way back when he first started spamming my wallet, what a weasel.
It does look like he turned what seemed to be a curation project into a self-enrichment, soft-vote-selling kind of scheme.
Not sure how to act against this though as he doesn't seem like a guy we can easily talk out of doing what he wants to do and downvotes are out of question because that's undeservingly stealing rewards from geniune authors.