Well, everyone has voting-power afaik, there is 3 weeks of accumulated rewards in the rewardpool because of the "whale experiment" which I think @abit and @smooth should conclude at some point.
Specially for those of us who have bought our stake and support the price outside of steem in the markets they are trading. "Become a Whale" @andrarchy said - well, now I am a whale. And I cannot even upvote or onboard anyone serious with a 100% upvote...
Total Reward Fund: 1,227,894 STEEM (Worth: $295,923 internally; $326,396 on Poloniex)
And it just keeps on going up and up and up.... when will it top out?
I want to support channels like @nextnews and others... but I am now forced to support with less voting-power then I have the rights to, just because two whales seems to want this "experiment" to go on forever and ever... Imagine THAT money-grab in the end?
I'm guessing that when the HF happens they will stop the experiment. I hear you at @fyrstikken, people who invested their own money in here deserve to be rewarded. I just think if new users and smaller users have more power they will use the site more, stay on longer and bring in more people, which in turn will help the site go mainstream. It is very frustrating for new users who post and see that their vote do nothing and they make no money. I'm sure we can find a compromise so we can reward investors and help new/small users feel this site is worth their time.
I understand your point Fystikken, but I think your investment in Steem platform will do far better when voting rewards are more evenly distributed and not just in the hands of few big whales.
I'd rather see 100 people have voting power of 1 penny each than 1 guy with dollar and 99 with nothing. I'd guess in the first scenario, we actually would keep some of these 100 users and in the second one lose most.