I'm not a fan of change for the sake of change, and I know many that enjoy curation, but I do think that curation is too deterministic, which is what encourages autovoting and exploitation. I would like to see a randomness factor, a curator lottery in essence, where it's not the first voters who get more highly rewarded, but a random voter. For example, as votes come in a curator lottery pool gets created, and at the time of payout, an RNG determines which voter or voters receive a proportional bonus reward based upon voter position. The 'lottery' winner position could get the maximum bonus, while adjacent voters could get a smaller share of the pool. I think this might force people to vote on posts not as positional snipers, but posts with a better vote distribution, which tend to be higher quality posts.