Who are the central forces that get to decide that a post is worth too much? What exactly is too much? I can understand this in cases of obvious abuse like the example you gave of the bogus commenting, but I have seen a lot more posts where people are targeted for no reason. I have had that happen myself, where some dick face came along and decided 11 people voting for my post shouldn’t equate to the $100 or so it had, claimed there was something bogus, but there wasn’t.

Votes shouldn’t be tied to money in this way, then. If 10 people come along and decide to give me their votes, how then, can the value of those votes be degraded by the actions of singular person or account because they arbitrarily say so?