This is an awesome slogan and it's one that I (@khaleelkazi) use often when describing Steem to someone I meet. I say it's essentially a social media platform where we can like each other and distribute currency with our likes. Obviously, there is a lot more that goes into it than that, but they generally get the idea and we can work from there.

I have the opposite problem of not having enough upvotes to go around sometimes, but I definitely see the idea of wanting to give a larger than 100% vote for a specific piece of content. 1 workaround is to create comments on their post with beneficiary set to 100% for the author. Perhaps a tool could be created to automate this and a button could be implemented on a front end that allowed the user to do this in a few easy steps.

On the note of a recommended feed, I think it's very important. We're working on something similar for Steemleo where you can view content that has been manually curated (I'd love to see some AI that could read your content habits and recommend related stuff to you... maybe someday).