First off, I absolutely love this phrase
We know from Kyle’s analysis that a good portion of these VCs/seed investors set up default following or are missing out on the governance vote, which is where the inflated rewards (and spam incentive) are coming from.
A few months ago, @Kyle_Langham and @wpb passed Periodic Confirmation of Neuron Followees. This proposal should assuage the concerns of those like yourself and @Zane that feel wronged by investors who haven’t checked in since genesis.
Implement this voter passed proposal that forces voters to periodically confirm their followees, and we should then theoretically end up with similar voting rewards (since inactive voters won’t re-confirm any of their followees and will miss out on not just governance voting rewards, but all other proposal rewards).
To conclude, this week’s governance proposal weight reset solves the issue of financially incentivized spam (by those same, “average whale investors” that sponsored @ysyms), and the periodic confirmation of default followees solves the other half of the equation, requiring a minimal amount of participation (once every 6 months) in the governance of the network in order to receive staked voting rewards.