Thursday I announced I will be delegating 1000 SP to a small user who is willing and interested in building their own account, who manually curates and is engaging with other users.
At the time I posted it, it felt a little awkward and I wondered if it was enough to matter. The response was overwhelming not only with those nominating other users and themselves, but those who jumped into support others and especially to 
Thank you to everyone who nominated and the post received the 2nd highest number of comments of all the posts on the site yesterday! That is amazing. There is no way I can select everyone I want to and the choice is pretty overwhelming! :)
Also, there was a lot of questioning of my requirement that whomever gets the delegation will self vote. I want to clarify why this is important to me.
We do not have enough stakeholders! Think about the growth we have had and the growth we want to see. There are VERY few dolphins and Whales and the minnows think we should be able to support every content creator. We can't. I didn't do the math, but let's say it is 1,000 minnows per dolphin or 10,000. I don't know what the numbers are but there is no way we can support the platform's growth. We need to create more stakeholders and also to adjust the expectation that dolphins and whales are able to support new growth. We mathematically can't. The minnows are going to have to support each other and we need more people to step up and hold some stake.
Whether you agree with self voting or not, my goal is to encourage the young accounts to be smart and build their stake so that they can support new users. Giving a 100 people dust votes isn't building the user base. I am not asking you to accept my vision, unless you want to accept my delegation. That's all there is to it. :)
It is fine for many different people to hold different visions of what things the Steem blockchain will support. I like to share my view, in case it makes sense to someone else. I am completely fine with you disagreeing with me and using your stake and your voice to do it. In my opinion that is what we are doing here!
Also, per my original post the announcements will be made on Friday the 22nd. I wanted to give time for the post to get around, I know I have plenty of people to choose from and I thought about just picking one to get things started, but I like to stick to my word. So, it will still be Friday before I announce the selected individuals.
Thank you everyone, I was literally overwhelmed with the reaction.
The original post is here
https://steemit.com/curation/@whatsup/looking-for-a-future-dolphin