Another mitigation technique the article missed: Instead of resetting everyone's status to zero, you can create a new status game. E.g. if you've implemented "

Another mitigation technique the article missed: Instead of resetting everyone's status to zero, you can create a new status game. E.g. if you've implemented "likes" to your posts, you can add a "voted most helpful" status and highlight "these are the ones voted most helpful". Adding another status game side steps original status game. It could also be interesting to have "status mini games" where different statuses switch out over time, but this probably works better for small communities rather than massive social media sites like Twitter.