The initiative I like. The lists are somewhat arbitrary. Also interesting is the fact that at least one of the core members of the initiative bought with a lot of SBD votes from various of the vote bots not so long ago (weeks instead of months ago), right at the last minute of closing of a bid window. I don't call out names here. I know this because I was testing with these vote services to check how they work, and saw this user buying the votes over and over again...probably with a bot, timing was too perfect and it was constant, many of the bid windows. Anyway, I like the initiative, I think the lists are done too quickly and many Steemians are simply left out of the list.
EDIT: I correct, on this users last post of 5 days ago buildawhale vote was bought by this core team member against vote selling. And at the same time, this user has a pretty high rep.