Amazing how deep the thinking must be to maintain and develop this awesome design! Not sure how comfortable I will be thinking of my curation activity as data fodder for whale bots .. but it is nice to know it is good for something, because money it doth not make, not at my close to average level of SP.
So there are Good Whales & Evil Whales, what bout Lazy Whales, who do not actively do anything? Perhaps there is something that can be done to stimulate their involvement .. ie: if you do not use your STEEM Power, it will be lost over time- like a deflating balloon - their wealth re-distributed ... to the bottom-most SP holders first perhaps. The balloon must 'actively' have 'air' put in for it to be maintained (this is curation, commenting, posting) - this will help with those Whales who walk away confident that they will continue to earn large amounts of power on top of their large amount of power - you know, disappearance or death contingency kinda thang?
Mnmmm ..guess that would havr had to be in at the git go ..lol.
Anyway .. awesome! :)