I do not know where the truth really is, and how efficient your model will be, one thing I can say for sure is that now we are going to hell.
When you spend a few days to write a post for yourself and a few more free bots, or when all your friends use voting-bots, depriving you of the opportunity to receive curation rewards for your vote ... hell, I feel that the authors and human curators are no longer needed here.
paperclip maximization, but without paper and ink ... and eyes and hands maximization.