It seems that the value assigned to a post should be more balanced and fair. An original "Amway" person here should not have their votes count hundreds of times those of newbies.
Also, people should be forced to read and comment in order to gain "posting points" that allow you to then post your own materials. That way, people would care what others are posting.
Finally, these bots and accounts by desperate young women in third-world countries looking for western males could easily be moderated OUT, if the intent was to build a REAL, independent information highway, rather than just a click-count tool for fattening up the early birds.
Jejeje desperate young womens. The thing is that this is a closed platform, so people behave as a fraternity, the one with voting power that can give you money just by liking your post (AKA whales) are the cool guys and girls and everyone wants to be them and to hang out with them. But, again, that's because is a closed system, a social media, but out in the open the one that gives you something to make you better, in any way, are the cool ones, at least from my perspective.
So how can this be fix, I like your idea of forcing people to read articles and to write comments on it before writing their own stuff, I don't know if that can be coded, from my end what I can do is just don't approved the behaviour of the raping the reward pool system and avoiding those post as plague. Peace out.