great reply, i think as far as the whale is concerned, ground rules would need to put into place. The group is small now, and maybe it could be a thing were a starting group would invest in it but its upvotes go to all members. Starting investors would own the whale account and use curtion money to reinvest into the whale. Down the road in 1-2 years if there are 1000 members, they will all get a tiny piece through upvoting and but maybe only 40-50 members will own the whale. Every member get benefit and the better the content the bigger the whale becomes. Not about growing the group as much as making it better for members we have already.
That desktop idea is really good, to filter out all the rubbish. That is deffo a good idea.