THE FACT THAT USERS HAVE TO WASTE VOTING POWER TO CURB ABUSE IS NOT THE RIGHT APPROACH AND IS NOT WORKING. MANY IMPROVEMENTS HAVE BEEN SUGGESTED BY THE COMMUNITY, PLEASE MAKE THIS A PRIORITY.
You are perfectly right, something has to be done.
I wrote that before but hope there would be more of a real discussion about my suggestions (but of course also about any other ideas to solve the problem):
I think that ...
- ... the restriction to four full paid posts per day was very reasonable.
- ... diminishing returns would make it less attractive to upvote oneself or certain other accounts again and again.
- ... a sigmoid reward curve would be interesting as it makes self-voting less attractive (it starts flat), but also prevents extreme rewards for single posts (as it ends flat as well).
Further suggestions very appreciated ...