Yes, this is all complex because people can often find workarounds or ways to exploit the system that lead to unintended consequences. As for Kevin’s proposals, I’m not entirely sure of the all the details and have not thought through all the implications, but his basic idea that the current rules are incentivizing behavior that is not adding value and that we should try to change them to reward behavior that incentivized quality content and quality curation is spot on. We cannot expect people to just do the right thing. What is needed, as I’ve written elsewhere, is probably a way to experiment with different rule sets in parallel through something like opt-in subcommunities. Ned replied that SMTs + Oracles might enable this. With this approach we could enable competition among rule sets and also gain lost of experience in what works and doesn’t work. My only concern is that it may lead to an infinite regress where you would then have to have a layer to manage the creation of those communities in order to prevent the powerful from creating a community that benefited themselves.