While I don't disagree that this is another way of creaming additional profit with little proof-of-brain employed (excluding the coding exercise), I feel the numbers here a pretty negligible when compared to other abuse.
I run a curation league and specifically ask (or seek myself when the numbers look just too good!) for participants not to be using code in their voting, in order to give manual curators a chance to show their skill as curators.
As far as reward pool take, the alternate account circle jerk voting rings that are growing more and more common as an attempt to mask huge self-voting %'s are way more of an issue.
Nice work on the code though, cheers!
@abh12345, we have to collect more data if the numbers are negligible.
The problem is, even circle voters or self-upvoters have to create some kind of content and be active on the platform.
For this, you don't have to do anything. Create the users, leave them to bot and let them farm with delegated SP.
No investment! No work done.