Though I love Curie and Robinhoodwhale, I also think the resteem feature has done a lot to promote great content. I've seen a number of posts in my feed which I wouldn't have otherwise and watched them get voted up when they probably otherwise wouldn't have. Just today I resteemed something which was basically unnoticed at 30 minutes. It was fun to see it take off after that.
The weight of SP does need to be spread around or official voting guilds need to form so whales can put their SP voting power into it. I think these early days are just testing the waters for what will become more common (such as Streemian's vote following tool).
Either way, keep up the great work!
Resteem might be good but currently we have not seen a substantial effect of the feature because people try to avoid voting resteemed article, especially the whales. Maybe its case to case situation but most of the time it nobody likes to vote it. Maybe if this feature be improve and make the resteemed article to be like their own article, the bots might vote for it.
I don't like the "be like their own article" approach because it just confuses things even more. I have no theories on what the whales vote on or do not vote on or why, but I have seen a direct benefit of the resteem feature both for myself and others. I like it.
Its just an observation, hopefully things well get better in the future. What is the advantage of resteeming to the resteemers?
Same advantage as everyone else who signals to the network they are a cooperative, beneficial actor. Sharing great content builds trust and new followers.