That&#x27;s also how I see it. There is nothing exponential about it. The cost for someone using a sockpuppet to vote for a post is exactly the same as for anyone else.<p>So either you have to make it really expensive to vote and that would make this a no-go or you end up with cheap advertisement that you can&#x27;t even block easily.<p>There is one trait to this system that is interesting: the cost to promote your content goes up with the rate of popularity of other posts. Kinda like in the real world where advertising on a popular page costs more than on a random blog.<p>But because there is no limit as to how many people would try to advertise, the whole content would soon be pure ads.