Instead of minnows and whales, how about breaking it down into newbies, users, and mods...

Looking forward to seeing what this chart looks like after the first payouts.. we have many new contributors being promoted to superusers, heroes, and mods!

Breakdown

"Whales" and "minnows" are nebulous terms and I was craving a more defined high-level view.
Here's the first attempt.

This table shows accounts grouped by log10(SP) as of 18-Jun-2016:

• SP - It's not user friendly to measure influence in inflating STEEM, nor in raw VESTS. But VESTS are the most stable unit of influence, and MVESTS are easy on the eyes. I propose that 1 SP = 1M VESTS.
• $ - approximate value of the SP (at the current feed) for reference.
• accts - number of accounts in the tier
• accts % - distribution of accounts represented in this table
• stake - collective influence owned by this tier (excludes Hive account@steemit and pending payouts)

Application

My thinking is that having such tiers will make it easier to communicate relative influence. Also, those seeking to "power up" benefit from having goalposts. Each successive level of membership/commitment would have perks such as increased maximum upload sizes, moderation/power-user tools, etc etc.

For instance, a commonly requested feature is fine-grained voting options. This makes sense for mods and supermods (1.4% of today's userbase) but would only clutter up the interface for newbies and regular users.

IMO, there's potential here in terms of improved usability, marketing, communication, and reporting. But first we need to find a common language/framework.

So if Steem Power represents a user's commitment, influence, and investment level,

What names would you use?

• How would you split it?
• What potential benefits or USP's could we offer?