There are even less if you consider that quite a number of those accounts are alts, dormant or automated voter accounts. How many out of that 1700 are active and approachable?
Some people are much better at rapport building than others and some are very, very terrible at it.
I don't know why anyone would hold STEEM to a dolphin sized level and not utilise it. If its used for auto-voting then fair enough, it could be a time issue but dormant... is there any of these really about?
I'm working on it!..., time is a factor.. this takes so much time to work into something big. I really don't know how you pump 3-4 things out everyday. I would simply run out of ideas.
there are a several orca accounts at least that are travelling the waters rewarding content producers and no one knows who they are. 6 or so of them I know of have about 700k between them.
I once did a post about @hr1 and @newhope in my early days. It did rather well but answered none of my questions. Neither account responded or voted it up.