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You have to take into account multi-accounting, so only the second idea would work if you would get lower rewards each time you upvote the same author in a certain time period (week?).

I've just published another idea on how to counter self-voting by de-incentivizing it. Read about it in my latest article Curation problems (incentive, rewards and self-voting).

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