RE: SMT Burnup: Reward Payouts, Tick Pricing, Delegation Emission Funding

Curious: aside from choosing different author/reward ratio splits on SMTs, might it also be possible to experiment with different rewards distribution algorithms? Specifically, as I have long advocated, I think that something like a Second price auction, combined with a super-linear curve to penalize stake-splitting would go a long way towards minimizing both upvote & downvote abuse, and I'd love to see an SMT run the experiment.