With the current compounding of SP there will be hundreds of dolphins and dozens of whales within a year, each of whom will presumably curate a niche that interests them. Within two years there will be thousands of dolphins and hundreds of whales curating Reddits and subreddits. It's going to take some time to build a user base and distribute STEEM... Steemit is going to grow into everything people are envisioning and much, much more.
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Why leave to chance what can be controlled. Rifle shots vs shotgun approach.
While I agree dolphins will appear by the hundreds and thousands, I disagree about whales. The barriers to becoming a whale are quite large and hard to surmount, unless the existing whales become dormant. That is the only way that their proportional stake in VESTS decreases. but if the whale is inactive, the money creation of his stake is inactive.
Most everybody has seen the problem of content non-specialization. upvoting steemit posts on steemit can only get so far, maybe we already reached how far that alone gets.
So lets fix this. We have the power to get everything in place, other than the voting power. And my hope is that once the infrastructure is in place, the whales will agree to either actively help by upvoting (manually or via bot that I can write for this) or to unleash the steemit accounts vast voting power. There is no name for that beast, it is not a whale or megawhale, but the entire ocean. And currently it is sleeping
The whale barrier might be lower than we think should STEEM go on a bull run - with the amount of STEEM being locked up in SP the float is small and the STEEM market is very, very tight. A run of 10x or 100x in market cap is completely possible if not probable over the next two years. There may be a lot of $10 - $100 votes to be had in the near future.
All that said, I think your idea is awesome and more categories with attendant whales would definitely bring in more talent and content. I'm surprised we aren't seeing some of the newly minted travel/photog dolphins and whales doing exactly what you are suggesting in the travel/intro sections. The whales dumped a huge amount of STEEM/SP/SD on a few of these (mostly) girls but I'm not yet seeing consistent upvoting by the pod.
higher STEEM price does not affect each whale's percentage of VESTS. Only their relative inactivity vs dolphins does. That is the math. And if whales are inactive, then the average awards will go down 90%+...
Also, without a more formalized system in place and without even any agreement as to the responsibility for the newly created travel dolphins, there is no assurance of continued success. That being said the "photography" tag is still consistently at the top. Realistically a single whale is still more influential than all the travel dolphinettes combined
Based on mathematical analysis of steemit, this is my recommendation to create feedbacks using the math to get hundreds or even thousands of speciality categories with the best content of anywhere else, that just happens to pay enough for a critical mass of authors in each category
like the old liquidity points system, if you take out the human factor the end result is just whatever the optimal math solution is
We must be focused. Trading is a good place to start. Also politics economics finance technology should have overlap. Nothing too general. It's much better to have some huge winners in adjacent markets than scatter shot content all over the map. That dilutes everyone. It's important the users see multiple categories that interest them with the best content on the web rather than one or two good post that rival other sources and a bunch of subpar material Focus on the customer. Focus on dominating categories not just checking a box that say we have that too.