im probably wasting my time bringing it up, but what about simply using some non linear, non exponent method of weighting steem power to votes.

Im not talking about 1-man-1-vote. something like RMS, or based on a standard deviation from the mean... Well maybe from the median because the megawhales screw up the mean, but you get my point.

I get that early investors/adopters should have more influence, but can't it "just" be 500 or 1000 times more influence than the guy who invests 10k in steem power. I get that you have sweat equity but seriously that much sweat?