@moeknows I upvoted your blog post to help improve the visibility of your proposal. However I don't agree with certain aspects:

no belief or opinion is more valid than another. Therefore, such a system could not include stake as a variable.

I don't agree. Experience is a factor that makes some opinions more qualified than others. So account-age should contribute as a factor.

But also, I don't think a better REP system on the same DPoS protocol would be enough. So it will require a new protocol (optimized for a social blockchain) and then a good implementation of that protocol (a fixed REP system).

I´ll leave the cross-post reference here for further debate:

Reputational Enhanced Delegated Proof-of-Stake (REDPOS)