How about Power Users get to nominate 1 other power user? 

Once a week
If they aren;t active, they lose the badge

Kind of an open curation and expands the number of quality power users

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I am pretty sure this is a version of the principal agent problem.

Any of the self serving reputation mechanisms break down with the infiltration of a single malicious actor.

You are effectively saying that there is a condition for a disease to spread within the system.

We rather need credible neutrality instead.

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Yes but you can lose the power badge if you engage in inactivity or spammy casts + user muting/reports