Oh no, dear don't apologize. Steemit has many learning curves and each day there is something new to learn.

The voting trail is basically a mechanism that copies all the upvotes @qurator makes.

If you follow the @qurator trail at 100% and Q votes at 14% then you will also vote at 14% for the same posts.

Follow the trail at 50% and @qurator votes votes at 14% you will vote at 7%

Streemian is used to copy votes of other accounts.

Steemvoter is used to send votes to certain accounts.

We implemented the Streemian trail so Q members can support other Q members. Now if Q upvotes your post there are several other members also upvoting your post because they are on the @qurator streemian trail.

Hope this all makes sense =)