It was an effort toward a mini brainstorming session. Honestly, I do not fully understand it.

It is an abstract concept with the purpose of decentralizing decisions about the Steem blockchain in practical ways.

The key is "practical" change. As such, employing a 50% protocol of ALL validators would simultaneously benefit both competition and contributions. Of course, this many people actively effecting change would be impractical for major decisions. However, if it could be shown that even a tiny bit of value could be added from a consensus of half the validators, then maybe something good would come out of it.

Also, since employing the top 50% of active validators would see many position swaps on an ongoing basis, anyone wishing to gain control on this level would be required to buy up most of Steem.

Again, this was just a flash of an idea.