Of course people would have to pledge to continuously be in #club100 for it to work - and that would exclude many from being selected.

Isn't that a good thing? To clear out the users who'd be potentially abusing the support given to them? I liked this suggestion of helping users build upto their SP to an Orca level. I see steemit working more efficiently than ever, since a past of couple of weeks. We have been able to filter out a lot of abusers within this time period, we have had community admins abusing the booming support, content farming and much more.

If you see it from my perspective, It's a really good thing that this happened. In this way we were able to clear out these abusers. Ofcourse there's still a very deep rooted abuse on steemit. But if prominent users continue their work of fighting against abuse, we'll be able to get rid of these abusers in a very short time hopefully. At this point I'd like to applaud @endingplagiarism and @saracampaero for doing some good work.

Once we get rid of these abusers, the steemit team can have a look at all those users who have been committed to #club100 or even #club75 and are willing to build their SP upto the Orca level. Maybe the steemit team can come up with a criteria of being able to receive that support? Those users do not have to be many in number. Maybe 5 a month? I dont know. Just a suggestion. Maybe those users who have already powered up to the 20k - 30k milestone by continuously powering up. Maybe these users can be eligible of recieving the Orca Support

We also already see a number of complaints saying that sc01 is 'centralizing' voting.

I don't think the Steemit team has been voting in a centralized manner. To what I have noticed is that if you post quality content, the chances of recieving vote from the team automatically increase. Ofcourse this doesn't mean you'll get a vote everytime you post but the chances increase. Other than that a very important factor is powering up. Those people who are complaining about the centralization of votes should have a look at their wallets and then at the wallets at those users who are recieving 'regular votes.' Even then I'd say, no one gets regular votes weekly except for Country Representatives.