1) Supercharging your vote
We have the promotion feature and it is a nice addition but as and I have discussed this does not allow people to power up their vote in any way.
My proposal is to allow people to "supercharge" their vote with Steem Dollars which would effectively allow them to vote as if they were a whale.
Most people would never have enough money to be able to do this via powering up the normal way. By allowing them to give special votes in this way you not only decrease the perceived inequality but you also increase the utility of Steem Dollars.
The money gets added to the value of the post like any other vote and goes to the author and curators without getting burned.
2) When you Power Up your SP Your Voting Power Percentage resets to 100
This would need to have a minimum value set on it to prevent people gaming it but if a decent limit of say 20 STEEM/SP was set I think a fair balance could be created. It might need a trial period to get the balance right but I don't see any negatives to at the very least trialling it.
I think it is only fair to reward people for supporting the platform by powering up and this would create an added incentive for doing it.
It would be another reason for people to keep powering up and not power down.
What do you think?
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