You would also have to convince a majority of the whales, as well as the dev team to take it on.
I'm not sure how I could convince people... If people can't see for themselves that the system is broken then I can't really help them. I guess we will have to wait until the current design shows its limitation. People need to see it to believe it kinda thinking.. maybe when the price hit $0.001 they will start wondering why..
If STEEM is worth the same as BTC one day, would that mean everyone with more than 8 STEEM would be a moderator?
This is why the number that seperates users and moderators should be in USD, if it was in SP you would have to change it as the price of steem increases. It would be very inconvenient unless you could do it without forking the code.
One last thing though - you have two completely separate proposals here mixed together. There is the moderator part, and then the hiding of payments. I'm actually against the hiding of payments part.
The hiding payments part is actually an integral part of the proposal.
If you don't hide payouts during the voting period users would see their posts go from say $1 to $8 back to $2 and back up to $6, users would just be totally confused and it would be playing with their emotions, no good.
I think people tend to think that moderators won't really vote much, they would just check for overpaid content. This is not true, moderators will vote a lot. If they want the rewards to go the right place the will have to.