Ranking will be affected by more than just GIVpower in the future, just the first thing will be GIVpower. Next will be the PFP collection. After that, there will be more factors… @rainer made this forum post about it previous and I’ve heard that a team will be revisting the ranking discussion in the near future.
GIVpower leading to the rank that affects GIVbacks is actually the whole purpose of GIVpower at-launch. Later… the rank will also affect how matching funds are distributed. The purpose of having the GIVbacks factor change incrementally for every project is to make it so that, no matter how much GIVpower you have… you can always make a little impact.
Anyway, this vote passed with overwhelming support, so I think that - barring any huge issues or problems - we should move forward w/ that implementation and revist after-launch when we have some hard data & user feedback. There was lots of time for advice process on this already, and I would like to keep moving.