Sounds like a great initiative @voronoi... I especially like the sound of it not being so automated it will get abused and just turn into another circular botnet.

My "other" Steemit account is for our small local art gallery... we're trying to create a Steemit presence both to help promote our existing gallery contributors, as well as to find potential new artists who may already be using Steemit... ultimately, we hope we can gain enough influence to help curate and support art and creativity on Steemit... but since the whole thing runs on a shoestring, that's for "down the road" when the upvotes we give are worth more than 4 cents!

Well, I'll be following and will try to keep up with this!