I formulated some similar ideas to make self-voting, circle-voting and spamming less attractive by ...
- ... thinking about a reward curve which started as n^2 / exponential (thus flat), and then later changed into linear which would work against self-voting as well as excessive rewards.
@clayop had a similar idea.
- ... implementing diminishing returns when upvoting the same accounts (including own ones) again and again.
- ... reintroducing the restriction to four (or less) full paid posts per day (from some hard forks ago) which was very reasonable.
- ... considering also other ideas like the one of UserAuthority from @scipio.
When I wrote these articles some time ago I really had hoped that more witnesses would have joined the discussion!
Thanks - you made a great overview of the problem startin from year ago.
this is awesome.