Thanks for posting this. I am a photographer who has been on the platform for about 8 weeks now and have seen a lot of promise but have also had my work stolen repeatedly in that time. This idea of the benevolent whale (or dictator) can work. Its a fine line however between ending up like Singapore or ending up like Zimbabwe. What do you think of the model that APPICS is proposing where they have curators who get voted in for each of the top 20 trending tags , and they get delegated a large amount of the currency (the equivalent of steem power on APPICS) so they have a "curation" vote power on behalf of the platform.
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The benevolent whale only works if the actual power is distributed, deployed according to rules that have broad consent along with integrity being maintained. The benevolent whale is NOT a dictator, but the opposite because of the broad community based consent and benefit.
I don't know enough about APPICS to comment with any conviction but I like the sound of elected community members being endowed with the power to moderate abuse and positively curate good content. I suspect it will only work if there are hundreds of curators rather than 20.