I think the guild ideas are great, I've already offered 500SP investment to project Tunder whale in the future.

I also agree 100% on the curating being super important. A way I figured minnows could grow was to provide a higher allocation of more curation rewards their way instead of directed to the higher SP users.

https://steemit.com/steemit/@will-zewe/what-i-feel-can-be-tweaked-to-help-incentivize-no-users-sign-up-new-user-activity-and-most-importantly-new-user-moral