Hi @val-a, thanks for your reply!
in current form it doesn't solve original problem (influence doesn't scale well with the number of users)
One idea that was proposed regarding this was to have the threshold be set at a dollar amount instead of in vests. It would allow the solution to scale, assuming that a large increase of users would be correlated with an increase in the price of STEEM.
I agree that the complexity part is a big deterrent. I don't know if there really is a much simpler way to accomplish the goal of reducing the influence of the largest stake holders though, that is still fair to them, without some level of complexity along these lines.
RE: Whales - Can the community buy out a portion of your influence?