I am not sure I was clear. I didn't suggest dropping curation rewards, just making them equal.

For example: a 10$ vote gets 5$ in curation rewards. A 20$ gets 10$ in curation rewards. This should happen independently of other votes on the same post.

In the current model, if others vote after you on the same post, curation rewards increase. This causes people to auto-vote the same pool of creators, expecting others to vote as well.

Gaming based on author reward is perfectly natural, they just need to provide the most value/entertain, or circle jirk with others but that can not be eliminated.