@jerrybanfield wrote a post a few months ago about voting patterns. It was horrifying and made some of the whales publicly change their voting after that.
This was when I decided to ignore the whales and focus on the minnows and bigger but still-small fish. There are less than 100 whales I think, and they are all up in each others business. There are about 5000 active people total - not including bots. It's unknown if you can survive here without whales, but I will do my best.
I have several friends actively "sucking up to whales" as their way to succeed here. They are all doing much better than me so I'm obviously not worth paying attention to.
Thanks. Very helpful comment, the kind of good interaction that makes me appreciate Steemit but ironically it's about the bullshit infighting, pandering, and shenanigans of and to the Steemit 1% that makes me question the platform's long term potential and viability.
My best guess, when you build a system that replicates real life distribution of power to the wealthiest then you end up with a system having all the same faults as real life.
I'm with you there. This is more of an oligarchy than out in the real world and that is saying something!
"Shenanigans" - I cannot believe how much I say this word in regards to steemit! I used to never say it and now it's basically daily!