One of the main reasons that the 10kminnos project has been working so well outside of the massive effort that @paulag has put in was the fact that larger accounts got behind it and spread their votes to some of the smaller active users. This has made such a difference to people that had been earning 40c per post which started getting them $1 - $ 2.

Seems like a small thing but a person earning this once a day will gain 50 to 100sp very quickly. If we can try to do this a little bit more and spread the votes out it will continue to build a larger more active userbase.