More often these days, I wonder if the free market model financial model we have at HIVE, specifically aimed at social interactions, is something we need. With 'we', I mean, the world. For more than 7 years we are experimenting without great results. I mean, recently I read from our Leo friends we suppose to have around 10k active users (whatever active user means in that number, don't know the definition). While we see the number of active users at web2 social services increasing by the day. Even Facebook was able to attract more active users, though plenty of peeps feel Facebook is at the end of its growth. The successes of all the social media platforms that doesn't have monetisation models for most of the participants, should tell us such services doesn't have to be monetised. Am not saying the model HIVE chosen isn't an interesting one, but as you already pointed out, it's darn difficult to create a solution that actually works. The one human, one user, one account is perhaps something we really need to solve before any success can be created. How to do this, isn't easy indeed. Perhaps it is not wanted even for the reasons you pointed out.
An idea that came to mind is to not drastically change HIVE content voting system, but the change the rewards flow itself. Instead of distributing the rewards to the voter and the content owner receiving the vote, the rewards flow into various funds. Which funds a particular vote reward flows into could be based on many parameters, like the preferences of the content owner, the preferences of the voter, and the content itself (through AI analyses for instance). A funds system is needed. Funds can be created with various goals. This could include e.g. a HIVE development fund (perhaps this is our DHF, or perhaps this is some different development fund to DHF with a different setup), could be other HIVE ecosystem funds eg marketing, for managing partners, could include all sorts of charity funds, could be for anything really. In such a setup the users still have influence over money distribution, however, the direct personal financial benefits are taken off the table. It is the latter that causes so much distress in my honest opinion.
I think we really need to start thinking of and implementing drastic changes to the HIVE system if we want to social interaction side of things to grow. Quite funny when reading about the LEO Finance DHF proposal. 15 months project to double our active users, which in fact will only add a little less to 10k new active users. While FB has what? 3 Billion monthly active users? Owwww, the governance of DHF may need an overhaul as well. Today, like last so many years, it is a bit too centralised ;) As I stated before, we need some drastic changes to the HIVE system ;)