Supposedly, you need to go in and kiss up to the whales - get them to notice you - and then try to get on their bot. I don't think that is usually too successful. Go look at whale posts and you will see they get hundreds of votes per post. A good portion of those people are trying to get that particular whale to vote for them.
But I do know two people actively chasing whales and doing VERY well with the kiss up strategy, so try it if you are that type of person. I did not believe it would work but it does. I'm not a nice enough person to do it - too blunt.
Some of them hang out in chats so you can go in there and beg for votes or whatever it is people do in there. I have heard this works, but I don't use chats at all so I have no advice.
The whales are in the position of being few yet having many that beg them for votes. You will just be another beggar going that route.
My advice is to interact with people higher than you - but not that much higher. Most whale votes are low on the slider, so you are not going to get a huge amount anyway.
You can go beg for one whale vote of $10. Or you can interact with many down here in minnowland and get those votes to add up to $10. Hopefully we all find a happy medium. And as you get a bigger and better presence here - bigger fish will find you naturally.
Also - many whales delegate sp. So you are getting a vote with a piece of whale power, but you just do not know that. Others are involved in projects that don't give them time to come out and browse.
I decided to ignore the whale situation here and deal with those who are lower on the scale. Slowly, things are getting better for me and now with the price going up - it's getting better still.
Thanks for your take on this. As you can see I'm totally new here, only lurking around for now and trying to soak up whatever I can because it's a bit more complex than it initially looks.
You cleared up the vote weight scenario quite well for me, I didn't really get it before.
Stop lurking ! Comment just like you did with a good comment and people will upvote you for your learning.
Read this post for tips and read and comment comment comment. You need to earn some little bit of sbd now, trust me and go after author rewards :)
Ask questions to me anytime and I will most definitely help you again. Good luck - you are here at the right time.
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I do intend to get involved a bit more but didn't want to rush into authoring stuff just for the sake of it.
I'm still learning the ropes, nosing around to try and understand things a little better and do like the way this platform rewards trust, support & quality so wanted to try and find a way to add any personal value that I could with the content.
There's a lot of helpful information around (including yours!) so I'm only in the stages of sifting through it all in order to try and get things right.