I've stuck my vote on a comment as I agree with whatsup that this is a conversation that is great to raise and worth earning on.
Some thoughts to add to what has already been mentioned. Often there is great help for redfish up to the point of minnowhood, but sometimes people get despondent when that disappears and they feel that their work is no longer getting the views or rewards that it seemed to get previously. So I'm not sure about the idea of moving all upvote support to redfish while leaving minnows and dolphins floundering. After all, we don't want what they've built up to go because they've given up and powered down. Maybe a balance is needed. Keep up those votes to slightly larger accounts you feel deserve support, just reduce the percentage to make sure you have the VP tasty for the redfish.
I'm glad that many of the curation projects have expanded to support older accounts as well as new, to keep things ticking over. Their priority is still the new ones, but the occasional boost for older ones, not getting a lot of views, keeps the motivation up. I also commend steemcommunity on the redfish and minnow leagues.
Thank you very much for mentioning the Redfish and Minnow Power-up Leagues.
https://steemit.com/steem/@paulag/redfish-power-up-league-and-wall-of-fame-week-34
https://steemit.com/community/@steemcommunity/the-minnow-power-up-league-week-22
If we could support a dolphin power-up League we would!
That would be quite the challenge!
We have to try and find the right balance, but at the moment I think we need to build a broader base of minnows. They can then show support for others. When we have more people with significant votes then the rewards should get spread better. As it stands a large proportion of the rewards are going to a fairly small set of people and many of those are already dolphins or even orcas. I cannot do much about the buying of votes, but I can help some redfish become minnows. If they can build their followings then they stand a chance of sustaining their growth.
Fingers crossed that the base can be built. Hitmeasap was doing a force a minnow thing a while back, but was struggling to find those close enough to it to push to that 500 mark and those who also weren't powering down.
Anyway, I'll be following this closely and see how things go. Rooting for more minnows. Lets hope they stick it out and move onto dolphinhood too.