Thanks for a nice exposition on what I feel is a crucial factor in the future evolution of STEEMIT, as it approaches its potential to outstrip Facebook in membership (in my opinion). I am slowly plowing through and classifying a very large number of posts from the “Trending” menu, and my intuition from studying them is that specific sub- communities need to be more strongly nurtured by the Top Whales. Different communities would evolve their particular sets of values, principles, procedure guides and standards of evaluation -- in other words, their own particular forms of gatekeeping that could be maintained by designated “coordinators”.