While I understand your point, I feel it's more of an anomaly to have the introduce yourself posts hit 1000's of dollars.

With regard to the whales voting as much as they can, votes diminish in weight if you give to many a day (optimum would be between 20-50) so even if a whale where to vote or a thousand posts a day, it would make little difference, since his votes would become worthless.

At the same time the goal is not to reward everything, but to reward good content. That actually requires reading the post, since most whales have day jobs, and a life besides steemit, I'm sure they are doing all they can to find and eward good content, but reading an article takes some time. Reading enough good articles to bestow 20 votes can take quite some time.
That being said, I fully understand your frustration with good posts not gaining any traction. I myself have posted good content (according to me) which made 0,00$. Thissite is still in beta, and I assume there will be updates in the near future which will make it easier for people to find your content, if that is what they are looking for.