I don't think it a coincident that the price of steem has rocketed at the same time the first experiment undertaken by 
Maybe the minnows and dolphins have seen light at the end of the tunnel with experiencing a meaningful impact from their curating. This has probably lead to the recent change in sentiment about the platform and the inward investment we have seen. This will have dramatically raised the value of whale investment in $ terms even though they've gone a few days without steem curation rewards.
How about this for an idea: Us dolphins, maybe anyone who has more than say 20,000 Steem Power, also withdraw their influence for maybe a day or two a week and give the minnows even more of the daily steem pool to play with, say maybe at weekends.
Then the platform could really show that it is for the majority. In my estimation, this would also encourage more minnows to take that investment leap into dolphin status and get the ball and steem price really rolling.
More whales would slowly power down with the attractive steem price and, very quickly, we really would have a distributed network effect, perhaps the most distributed of any crypto.
Any thoughts would be welcome.