I totally get what you are saying about the "cool kids" and becoming one of them. I only started gaining a little traction with my posts after joining 3 other communication platforms to network and promote my articles on here. I've met some really cool people and had a lot of fun doing so but I'm not the normal user to base things off of. Having to join other platforms and forge friendships elsewhere to gain traction here is a big problem. Making people more stingy about their powerful votes is not going to help. I think this new voting system will just make the issue worse.

This system is not going to help the good posts of small minnows gain traction it is going to fortify the positioning of the elites that have already forged behind the scenes relationships and collude with votes.

Let's be real most of the shit on the front page is not good content and if upvotes were weighted equally those articles would probably never make it to the front page.

I wish I was wrong about this stuff but your tale of holding off on bringing in your fan base just shows that sadly I'm right.