while being yourself some sort of a whale
I'm just a new user and started with 20SP not even 2 months ago. Everything i did so far, i achieved it by myself. We all have the same chances in this game. I'm merely a small baby dolphin. So no, i'm not a sort of whale.
as it is mostly whales upvoting for support other whales (and getting out with 1000$ with a no effort/no interest post, while the user base try to write stories...)
- 400 votes, not even 5% of those votes from 'whale' accounts. This means another 95%, non whales, upvoted this as well. Or are you assuming 95% of the upvoters should not be considered as our 'user base', and consider this post as non sense ?
Well, to be fair, 70 of those votes are all from the same person's bot accounts. So, it's not like these are unique voters. Also - several of your whale votes are all the same person. So, we can't just look at vote totals and make any specific argument about them. What we do know is, you wouldn't have anywhere close to a $2000 payout if whales weren't voting for this. You'd be lucky to get $20.
exactly, and that post is just a gentle pat in the back of the whale, to get some more
(don't forget to thank the badgers).
Also steemit isn't that old, so you got in there 2 months means, you got in there mostly at the beginning...
Now I'm going to call you out bit here. Number of votes does not matter and likewise "5% of those votes" does not matter. Only SP matters. I really wish the UI would be updated to fix the bug it has of displaying a meaningless number (fortunately the "Hot" page was indeed fixed to avoid ranking based on vote count), but as long as it does, the knowledgeable members of the community such as yourself should avoid attaching some meaning to it.
So it was the SP all along, not the votes nor the comments?
"Hot" used to use votes, but that was broken and easily manipulated so it was fixed to use SP instead.