I agree that it sounds very interesting, but in my eyes HIVE reputation hasn't any meaning at all.
Edit 2: Filter Up by Follower. People can only Vote if they follow you.
Or also (and maybe most of the time more reasonable) if YOU follow THEM ... (otherwise everybody could just decide to follow you for a minute, vote, and then unfollow you again - of course you could set a criteria of a min duration of following you).
Most important, however, is that there will be poll options in which not only money matters - so I fully agree with you that it could become a very nice tool.
Indeed. One possibility will be that anyone can create a token and distribute it according to whatever algorithm or system they desire to use or to experiment with. This will then become the voting power or decision-making influence that people have. This can perhaps help us find other paradigms beyond proof-of-work and proof-of-stake (even if technically you have staked a token, you may have received it not because you locked in money but because you e.g. made a certain kind of contribution that was recognized by the community).