Hi @haphazard-hstead - thanks for the @jedau link - most interesting. Will definitely revisit my thoughts on this.
The idea of how invested people are in the platform has just come up for me in the context of a new monthly grant giving project I have just launched. Inevitably that will be a criteria I will have in the back of my mind at least when deciding who to award grants to.
I'm still trying different approaches with voting at the moment. I'm currently working on my #SignUp100 campaign to get 100 more people on to steemit this year - particularly in Wales. That brings with it some degree of moral, and practical, obligation to fully support the new people I am onboarding - at least until they are past the initial few danger weeks when rewards are generally very sparse.
But as the numbers grow, if I am doing my job properly, that will become an ever more tricky task to balance well. 5K+ SP is very useful but it can't work miracles !
Your effort to bring on 100 people is admirable! And it will require supporting them for awhile, for sure. It's a complicated ecosystem here on the Steem blockchain, especially now with more and more platforms and projects connected to it. We all have to keep adjusting -- keeps us on our toes! ; )