well i think that's a sound strategy :) its kinda hard to help others up if you have a vote at 0.0025 at the start , you can't even vote yourself up over dust treshold like that. That's why i sometimes get the impression some of the "whales" like their position as benevolent enlightened content dictaor a bit too much, you know :"kiss the pope's ring and repent", lol

and all will be well, OR ELSE, ... or else try crawling from the mud by yourself, right ? a few hundred at the very least and a certain level of interaction unless you got 50 years time or unless you know someone who will just delegate you a few thousand SP right off the bat, all too true , sounds a bit like that old legend on how the "1%" holds all the money, a tale from a distant time in a galaxy far, far away ;-)

then again ... as someone here once said to me at the start when i was under content-nazi flag fire and downvote carpet bombing

"you gotta see the game for what it is " :D