I have been advocating for weighting votes based on reputation, rather than personal wealth, as I expect this to be of more relevance in the encouragement of higher quality content.

However, in the present environment, where downvotes not only impact financial rewards, but reputation, it is possible for people who merit far higher reputation, but have become involved in disputes with whales, to have lower reputations.

Generally, this problem rarely occurs, but delinking personal wealth from vote power would eliminate it entirely.

So, sorting by reputation would be a great thing almost all the time, and I'd find it useful, as long as I could still find those high quality posts from people targeted by personal vendettas by the wealthy.

Thanks for this great idea!