Yep, agreed completely. Plus changing the curator/author split would likely make "policing" users less necessary. When someone is forced to give up half their vote value to a stranger, they tend to try and game it somehow to keep more for themselves. If that split was say 75/25 or even 80/20 I would think they would be more likely to vote a little more altruistically, though that is just an assumption on my part.
If we're going to do a "skin in the game" stake-weighted voting system let's do it right and make the risk/reward worth the investment.
Agreed, what we have right now isn't it, hopefully we can get some changes without having to wait another year or two.