Hey @dantheman!
While I have been awaiting weighted votes since I became active here, I wanted to ask what exactly the required SP is to attain it?
The biggest reason I've wanted it is cause I would like to be able to have bigger voting power while actively voting through comments in posts. Even though I know my power is low and my votes end up having barely a cent behind it, I think that limiting myself to 25 votes per day just because of my voting power feels kinda wrong. I am not sure if this is to fight bots, or if you are working on a better way for users to regain voting power from other sources. But if it would be a simple change to give users (who I know there are many of) that have 1000 SP weighted voting, I would really appreciate it.
Cause to me I feel like reading and voting for quality content and leaving a vote as support is more important than its value, and with the masses doing the same, value would come.
Edit: apologize for being a bit off-topic with this comment.
It is my dilemma too and I second your question. Thanks for asking :)
Weighted voting is already implemented on the blockchain, but you can't do it on Steemit.com. I've been looking into voting power lately; follow my blog and you'll see a comprehensive analysis of voting power come out hopefully on Monday.
The short answer: You can't do weighted voting on Steemit.com, but it doesn't matter - if you vote so much that your voting power drops, you end up having the same total influence as if you only voted 25 times per day.