Are you aware if anyone looked at a non-exploitable price at which this could be done? You'd think that the price to recharge each vote would be equivalent to the average upvote value. It seems like that would at least be a lower limit, also seems quite expensive for what its worth?
Possibly more, otherwise you could transfer half of your SP to SBD within a day by self-voting...
Here's a better idea to think about. Allow users to power up their vote above 100%, at the cost of destroying their vests permanently. Like a dragonball Z style Kaioken.
So lets say i want to double the power of my 7000 vests and cast an 8 cent vote on something that i think is important. I can do so by destroying a certain percentage of them (maybe like 1% for a double, 2% for a triple, something along those lines... with the ultimate weapon of sacrificing all of my steem power for a 100X keioken. )
ALso, id be giving others extra SP incentives without creating more steem. And we can have fun watching mega-bernie-sanders and mega-dan go at each other.
What we really need a sink for is vests.
At an absolute minimum, it would have to be more than the value of the vote itseltf (and would therefore have to be dependent on SP)
FOr example, if i could fully recharge my $.04 vote by paying $20, that wouldnt be gamable. But if Bernie sanders could, then the dollar vigilante would never make any money again.
Yea, but a single upvote isn't worth a fixed amount either, so it might get really tricky.
I am not aware of anyone digging into the price point of it, I sure didn't. I kind of just added a blip about it in this grand article about a UI/UX change. I almost took it out ;)
Maybe it's only possible with SBD to prevent this kind of anything anyways? or would that not help...