Oh no, dear don't apologize. Steemit has many learning curves and each day there is something new to learn.
The voting trail is basically a mechanism that copies all the upvotes @qurator makes.
If you follow the @qurator trail at 100% and Q votes at 14% then you will also vote at 14% for the same posts.
Follow the trail at 50% and @qurator votes votes at 14% you will vote at 7%
Streemian is used to copy votes of other accounts.
Steemvoter is used to send votes to certain accounts.
We implemented the Streemian trail so Q members can support other Q members. Now if Q upvotes your post there are several other members also upvoting your post because they are on the @qurator streemian trail.
Hope this all makes sense =)
Thanks for your reply, it didn't make sense last night, so I've come back to it!
So I think I'm understanding it a bit now, so Steemvoter is voting for Qurator posts and Streemian is voting for members posts - is that it?