That could be viable if they did away with the current author/curator mechanism and applied all inflation (not being used for the DAO) to holders of vests. Do away with the upvote/downvote completely and install a tip feature to send whatever amount the reader wants to the authors wallet.

This would

• Render all bidbots obsolete.

• Do away with flagging done maliciously

• Would give users a reason to shit or get off the pot when it came to buying stake in the system.

Scammers would have no way to scam, the reward would come 100% from investment or from writing/creating pieces of value that others who invest are willing to part with their inflation reward to say thank you.

I know you were joking, but they may want to consider this at some point down the road. :)