I do agree to an extent.

The problem is, we know there are legitimate ways for people to steal from the reward pool without putting in much effort through automation. I won't touch the topic of circle jerking and other means, because let's just keep some basic principles of thought in place here..

The system which works against the obvious abuses, can also be used to abuse people's hard work and remove rewards. This is akin to bullying in my opinion, especially if the content is not collectively agreed upon to be of the highest offensive material, like rape and things like that, which the collective will agree is not good and no one would really want to monetize such materials unless they are part of the rare individuals who enjoy sick shit.

Ok, so..
What's the solution?

No downvotes?

Hasn't this been tried elsewhere with disastrous results?

The only solution I can think of is a consensus based DV system, where community members would need to partake in a pre-vote to determine if it should be downvoted, and perhaps this could be a monetized thing, partaking.

That's an immediate thought as an idea maker, not a programmer per say.

The system here could be improved.

I think we can agree on that much.