You're right, that might work. I don't know how to automate the following of every account, I couldn't possibly do it manually. Then there's my lack of real wealth to buy HIVE to stake on said account to make it function.

That would be ripe for abuse though too. I think it's 10,000 HP to 'unlock' account creation priveleges on the blockchain level. Then you can create new accounts with the only cost being Resource Credits. People could double, triple, quadruple, et cetera dip on votes from this hypothetical account by creating new accounts for themselves.

Right back at the beginning of our talk you said (paraphrasing) 'as long as it doesn't benefit those at the top...'

I wonder if that is inevitable for any system of resource allocation built on quantification and numerals. The prevailing tendency is that higher number = greater power over resource allocation in a positive feedback loop for the actor