Yeah, I would like the bot voting to stop. As a writer, I don't think I care one bit if some bot votes for me, not in a system where a REAL user's vote is worth more.
Why not have votes give money based on both reputation AND Steem Power?
Just give it a little math formula, like "Voting power = SP * 1.(reputation)" or something. That'd be like 1.62 for me. That'd allow people who are big fans of the community to have a powerful vote, as well as people with money and a lot reputation.
That means there will not be two whales: Reliable content creators, AND people who invest money into the platform.
Not only that, but block money for self-votes. This seems obvious even without any other modification.
Yeah, don't take my math formula too seriously, an actual formula that'd work in practice would probably be different.
I definitely support this. I've always thought self voting is kind of weird, and don't do it myself.
An interesting idea, but I wonder if this would just make things even more lopsided. My feeling is that people with high SP are generally also the ones with high reputation, so adding a reputation multiplier might just give even more voting power to elite users at the expense of the hoards of average minnows. Granted, those with high reputation have worked hard to get where they are, so perhaps they deserve a bit of an edge. The difficulty is in balancing it so the disparity is not so great as to make too many people feel that their votes don't matter.