Thanks for the thorough explanation. As you pointed out, advanced whale voting strategies need input from smaller fish with strong curation skills. For this reason, I'd like to put forward one idea: what if on a weekly basis some "promising small curators" (to be defined) were selected to get their Steem power multiplied by 10 for one week ? This would enable whales and the community at large to identify new talents both on the authoring and on the curation side...