Delegating SteemPower - The best idea since the invention of sliced bread?!

The power to delegate Vests could really improve the democracy of steemit, the power distribution and the creation of dolphins and orcas. All in all, making the whole steemit experience better for everyone.

After reading dantheman 's post and thinking a bit on my own, I think I heard someone talk about this on steemit chat, but this idea really got me excited:
What if whales could give you from their power to use for curation?

Look, I'm first and foremost a steemit fan! I am always thinking in what ways can we improve steemit. I think being selfish around here is bad for everyone. It's almost like, it's STUPID to be selfish. I am in awe at a system that finally made selfishness a bad strategy :)
So that's why, the idea that vest delegation could be possible is exciting to me, because i think it could really power up [ cough ] the whole eco-system.

I'll use @berniesanders as an example. As of now he has 6779M vests.

He decides to delegate to me 25% of his power esentially transforming me into a mini-whale. What am I to do with this power? Well, CURATE obviously! Upvote stuff he would like to be upvoted but misses.

How would this work? Why would he chose me or you?

First, he must chose people he trusts, that he feels would do a great job and also not abuse the powers. How he and the whales in general will find and chose the people able to do that remain to be seen but can't that hard.
Still, even if you chose someone you think it's good, you need to test the person.

That's why, the powers would be somewhat limited: in time and in how often the delegate can use them.

Bernie --> @razvanelulmarin 25% [ or 1667M vests ] for [ 24 hours ] can be used [ 5 upvotes ].

This is what the line of code would do: he gives me this much power for 24 hours, in which time I can upvote 5 times. I chose whatever I want to upvote, I can mind my vote, curate with careand he could check afterwards.
If my job was well done, if my curation was good, helped authors that were otherwise lost in the sea of steemit and whatever else criteria [ prior discussed ] have been checked he might decided to give me the power once again for 24 hours and 6 upvotes, or maybe more or less or later.

|The idea here is that, he could all of a sudden create 4 smaller-whales to use his upvote powers, that would be AT least 4x his number of upvotes and more people noticed, followed and generally rising up from the minnows pool.

And this is something everyone could do! Every whale and orca could empower some minnows to do that.

Let's look at the downsides:

#1. The upvotes will be worth less.
This could, in turn, lessen the "casino effect" which is very important for ow steemit work. It's a real downside that needs to be considered, but I think it can be easily mitigated from 2 directions : the whales will still vote with their full power periodically and also, the casino effect will still be felt to some degree anyway, a 100$ upvote will motivate anyone to get to work.

#2. No "Follow the whale" effect
When a whale upvotes, people usually flock to the post and it gets what I call "after-upvotes", a lot of upvotes from people who merely "follow the whale" which in turn gives momentum and life to the post and usually, it goes up a lot more after that vote. With delegates, will this still happen?
I think this depends on weather people will know who is delegated and how much. And that's why I think it's important that we'll have a way to see this and "follow the delegates".

Other downsides include the possibility to game this, maybe a delegate would buy his way up or other situations will arise, but almost all type of abuse can be fixed with a hardfork here and there. But i'd argue that a person can be a delegate for only one person at a time, and for only one unit of the said power and no whale can delegate more than a certain number of people and certain % of the VESTs.

The benefits are plenty too. It's not only a great incentive to curate when you have that power but also, given that we could have 20-100 delegates at one time, the homogeneity of voting will be gone, people have strong preferences and that will be seen in the trending and in the tag. A lot of tags are not getting any love as of now, just because there's not a whale interested in that tag. With 100 delegates, this won't happen. The gems will be found, people will stick to writing, everyone will win!

What about curation rewards?

I'm sure the curation rewards will change in time, as the system in place today seems to be very unbalanced. But, considering that they stay the same, I can see that the downside for a whale would be that he/she won't see any rewards from delegating. Or maybe the delegate won't be inclined to do the work because he won't get much rewards beyond what he\d normally get.
A compromise is necessary. Both sides need incentivisations, one to delegate, one to accept the delegate-powers. As far as I can figure, the compromise would be that :A whale must give up part of its curation SP rewards.
Yes, a little sacrifices that will pay HUGE dividends when steemit finally explodes.

This is just a sketch of an idea, I'm sure I missed a ton of stuff and I might be wrong on some others but I'm writing, as always, with hope that a lively and interesting discussion from all side can kindle.

Looking forward to that!