That's a nice initiative! congratulations!

Thanks!

I would also recommend approaching Orcas (medium-sized accounts) to tell them about your project. Many Orcas are incredibly supportive of activities that add value to HIVE.

I've been promoting @topcomment quite a bit in several ways already. I haven't targeted hivers with high stakes specifically. I'm promoting it on Snaps and even had a small talk on the Hive Humpday Hangout podcast.
The promotions mostly result in delegstions, which is great, but since I give 80% returns of curation rewards, the account itself almost doesn’t grow.

I do create a weekly post that gives some transparency on the upvoted posts by the team and the top 20 most upvoted users, but that post does not get a lot of rewards. The @topcomment account is fairly new and doesn’t have a lot of followers.

I'm a bit hesitant to contact high stake users to ask for their votes.

It would be nice if there were a sort of shark tank with orcas and whales where people could pitch their projects (pun intended 😉).