let's create the situation wherein the whales being too big, yet too few is no longer a problem; we need more dolphins, thousands of them!
right now there are way too many posts with sometimes more than a 100 votes, yet not even $1 reward ... good posts that are just going wasted... it's a flaw, the only way to fix that is by creating more dolphins by giving more steem away, but not to authors, but to good curators!
if you were to ask your fellow whales to make a collective effort, not to build a bot, but to use the existing data to compile a list; pull all the minnows, run a little program to collect their data and find a good way to select people that are above all else good curators, not because they got lucky once voting for the same post a whale did, but because they never seem to vote for crap ... you tweak it until you can select the top 10.000 CURATORS and you give them some upvotes ...
10.000 minnows that's about 25% to 35% of the active minnows, you run a little program to see which of their own posts got the most votes and you upvote that post ... with a bot this time
10.000 people that's a lot, while if they were to get 50-100 steem ... that's not even that much in fact, but it's needed right now to feed the bottom ... urgently!
think about it; 10.000 minnows all of a sudden getting a bit more power, so less good posts are going to waste ... it would be a big improvement for the vast majority of the users, as many of them are getting disappointed
that's just 1 idea, there are plenty of other options, but something needs to be done
forget what it may or may not do to your own steem; it's for the health of steemit as a whole ... you have a % of the total; instead of trying to make your already significant % bigger, you should focus on making the value of the total bigger!
it's an eco-system and right now there's a massive starvation going on down at the bottom of the steemit ocean
does it matter to your actual $ worth whether you reach the 1.000.000 in 6 months or 2 years? yes, it does!
take some type of an action to create artificially more dolphins, because you artificially created whales that are way too big! right now the results are skewed, you need to rectified that
you're welcome ;-)
(don't forget to upvote my comment, thanks)