I’m a bit torn on this particular use case. The one thing that gives me pause is that I actually hope that more community features will roll out in time and enable the original vision of communities being able to set a beneficiary percentage for posting in the community. I think there’s a lot of positive use cases & incentive to that structure. What’s being done here isn’t that different, however the 50% “donation” is rather high!

I feel like at any kind of scale that model starts to break down as too many users vie for the accompanying vote support and the 50% drain is too much... especially if no other curators will touch that community with a ten foot pole.

More than vote selling, I’d be inclined to categorize this as 50% self voting which is rather high percentage by broader community standards. The unfortunate thing is it sets up normal users as human shields... so there’s no easy answer. 🤷‍♂️