[bellyfullofbac]

The obvious question to us hackers is, how can a bad actor game this?

I guess if your upvotes means you're paying a part of your $5 to that post, it would be your own money (so if you upvote 100 posts, each get 5 cents). But what will your downvotes do? If it gives you the poster's money, hah, BRB, I have a bot to write.

I guess the downvote can cancel someone else's upvote.

Another algorithm would be to count all the positively voted posts, and pay out the pool divided by votes. But then I should also write bots that downvote others' posts so I get a bigger share of the pool...