Thanks for your feedback!
I didn't know about 'Stewards of Gondor'. Sad to read they abused the delegations.
I don't think we need a service like that to improve the spread of votes. And I also don't think we should rely on whales to solve it either. I think if more a matter of us, dolphins and orcas to diversify our votes and have some eye for newcomers.
Thanks for mentioning @drjudywood. I'll put her on my newbies list to follow.
I don't think we necessarily need way more users. I think it would be better to have a few users that a either have interesting things to share or a following already.
RE: How can we improve user retention on Hive?