Thank you for your detailed response to this question Linda.

I can see how it must be incredibly hard for Whales to distribute their vote in a way which works for everyone. And please don't get me wrong, you are Steemit's living angel in the way you support so many people. I suppose in the end we just need more Whales here!

View count would certainly help, or a mechanism like the one you described so people could easily see which posts were getting the most views every day. For films I would say view count is essential and having now uploaded over 100 films to BitTube (where they reward based on view time) I can see people watching them (looking at view count) and this seems like a system which will reward more fairly.

I do agree the content of the DLive message to everyone could perhaps have been toned down a bit. No need to leave on a sour note as you say.