That is an elegant solution to this problem.
But, no matter what, curation is always going to be played using game theory. But I think that is a good thing. It gets many people engaged ... trying to "beat the system" which, at the same time, strengthens the system.
I agree. I see no problem with the application of game theory, but we want that to contribute to the platform's quality by aligning those incentives with those of quality content! Robotic auto-voting fails to achieve that end.