I don't like the 1% inflation either, but seeing as how you edited a comment this largely addressed what I was going to say on the subject. I was thinking a x% tax/donation of all posts on steemit (not comments) could go to the fund, but no idea if this would be enough/discourage people from posting.
It would be nice if votes could be tallied in 2 ways with a % of weight put on both. # of votes and take weight of votes. It would still give investors a heavier vote, but allow minnows to gather together and come up with initiatives as well for those smaller voices on the platform. Not sure if this will even be doable, but just a thought.
Don't know how this would be accomplished either, but would prefer to pay people in terms of % project complete. For instance, if someone was requesting money to do advertising, maybe they would be paid a certain percentage after the ad video was reviewed and approved by the community, a certain percentage for a few months of advertising to see how well the video is working and then a certain percentage for the rest of the year advertising costs, and then full funds at the completion of the "work". Once again, a lot more complicated, but gives more security to the funds to confirm the work is being done and is paid on a more real world contractor type basis.
Showing the number of votes as well as the weight would be very easy.
To do the percentage completion idea you talked about, the worker could break his task down into multiple proposals with payouts for each stage/milestone.
I was referring to coming up with a way to weight voting not only by stake of weight of vote, but by # of votes. For instance if someone had a proposal that was voted on by a lot of minnows with no stake they could rank higher than someone who proposes something that gets 1 vote from a "whale". I could see how if you do it based solely on # of votes that could be gamed by creating a bunch of nothing accounts, but would like proposals to go through other than those voted on solely by 1 or 2 big whales.
Agreed it would be easy for the person proposing the idea to break it down. I was just assuming it would be harder to automate something like that instead of someone just coming up with an idea needing x sbd per day to implement y which could be automated more easily.
Ah, so you didn't just mean you wanted to "see" the number of votes, you want the number of votes to affect which proposals get funded. Unfortunately, this can't really be done because a single user can easily have as many accounts as they want to buy.
Indeed, because of the nature of the original mining process, many whales have dozens or more accounts. And some hackers have abused the faucet run by steem to create thousands of accounts. So using vote counts is pretty useless. To make it useful, the chain would need some way to verify "one person, one vote".