I generally support the idea of democratization, of valuing speech (content) based on the equality of speakers, rather than considering some more valuable than others because of wealth (or any other inequitably distributed metric, such as size, or IQ, or location).
However, I suspect that reputation has a role to play that remains currently unexpressed.
I'd be interested in any weighting schemes you might test that considered reputation as a means of modulating value.
However, all that being said, merely giving equal weight to each valuer of content is preferable imho to the present linking of wealth to opinion.
Thanks for your exploration of this topic.