Not really, they are currently already doing it regardless.
With the voting power back in the hands of people instead of delegating to bitbots with less people using them. It will be regulated by the dolphins and whales like they use to. It would be easy to track the culprits.
This strategy will kill three birds with one stone. 🤷🏼♂️
Those that are already doing would not be affected. Those that aren't would start.
Folks that upvote creators they find of high quality regularly would be penalized for actually curating.
It's a bad idea, and would not put VP back in the hands of the general community in any way I can envision.
That's the way it looks, punishing the few for the crimes of a lot of others.