@empo.voter upvotes (~750K controlled HP)**.
Since the beginning @empo.voter acted like a proxy curator for other curation trails on Hive. But why not using it to slightly "emPWR" (project) holders? However, a few strict rules would be required. Like a manual and "ongoing" review in order to avoid abuse.

I feel like going fully this wouldn't be great. To put it in perspective, imagine if leo would only vote for people posting through their front-end or only those who pay the premium subscription it may alienate others while increasing their own earnings (beneficiaries/premium), it'd be a bit of a race to the bottom for users as we saw with some other shadier projects that would 99% of the time only vote authors who'd give them beneficiaries which isn't fair to the authors to take a lower cut than the default.

There needs to be some room to also use the vp to attract others who may get interested in the project I suppose, to use hive as a "marketing tool". Another example; we've started voting hivegaming community posts with @zingtoken lately as well as we're getting closer to the game being released to attract new players and that's something that could scale further eventually without becoming aggressive.

Anyway, curation and anti-abuse are important but I'd say some spare voting power put to use for other things would also be good and not focusing too much on how much they hold compared to the actual content/activity/effort of the authors as that wouldn't be in line with general curation. If it's votes with l2 mainly it'd be another thing and people could do as they want but when a majority of rewards come from hive I think it's best to proceed with caution so things don't get out of hand and paint the activity negatively.