This post came after reading a post a few days ago by 
The hatred for the bigger accounts on Steemit is pretty obvious. People love to complain and the Whales are a great target. They do not upvote anyone other than themselves, hence showing that they care nothing for the newer people.
In reading
https://steemit.com/steem/@crypto2crypto/i-know-i-have-been-ranting-but
Which brings me to this point....why should larger accounts support Minnows when Minnows refuse to support each other? (I presume Red Fish are also in that camp)
This is what was written...
MINNOWS DON'T SUPPORT MINNOWS!!!!!!!!!!
This is also added.....
Now go to the trending page, and see how many trash posts have hundreds of upvotes..
Do you think the Whales and Orcas are doing all that upvoting? We know the trending page is often the result of bid bot voting, so where do all the votes come from?
You guessed it, the smaller accounts.
Now, this might ruffle some feathers but so be it. People need to be realistic. Do you think an account with a couple hundred thousand SP is going to even notice your upvote let alone support you? Look at the drop down arrow on each post next to the votes, only the highest votes appear. The lower vote amounts are not even visible without doing some digging.
One of the things I noticed is that people fail to remember this is social media. Part of it is the way some people on here promote STEEM saying post and you will make a ton of money on your first post. I saw a headline of a post the other day (I cannot remember who wrote it) that said he blanked on his for 90 posts.
The key to social media is being social. I am continually amazed that people come on here and expect instant success. They either throw up a few posts, complain that the system is unfair, and then leave. Another tactic is they post off and on expecting results. Consistency is required for success on here.
That said, there are no guarantees larger accounts will even know you exist or support you. There are many of the top 300 accounts who have no clue that I exist even though I have close to 11K posts. There are 50K-60K transacting on here each day. It is impossible to interact with even a small portion of those users.
Which brings me back to smaller accounts. The question is why do they not support other smaller accounts? Like
If I had to guess, it is because everyone wants the instant success. Upvoting a large account a bunch of times takes very little effort and could pay off huge if it is reciprocated. Sadly, it usually is not. Hence, the new person leaves disgruntled.
I believe that success on STEEM requires the long-term view. This is not an overnight process. The key is developing relationships with others on here. The advantage the smaller accounts have is there are a ton of them. People often talk about the power of the Whales (and Orcas). They really would not have a chance if the other 900K accounts posted 3-4 times each day and used their 10 votes each day. The numbers simply get too staggering.
I say all that to say this. You can't complain of a broken system if you are partially to blame.
This doesn't pull any punches yet I have to agree with the sentiment. One of the reason I post the monthly numbers and provide a contrast of the MVest breakdown is to encourage the smaller accounts to keep working to grow their accounts. My central thesis with this is the power of the numbers. A couple hundred accounts cannot withstand the onslaught especially when 75% of the reward pool is given to authors.
My suggestion to newer people is to ignore the larger accounts. Focus the attention upon the Dolphins, Minnows, and other Red Fish. Give your upvotes to these people and comment on their stuff. The likelihood of them supporting you back is much greater.
It is time for people to stop expecting the system to be corrected from the top down. The strength in numbers means that we are capable of altering STEEM from the bottom up.
According to 
https://steemit.com/pt/@arcange/steemit-statistics-20180505-pt
Imagine what would happen if all these accounts supported each other with upvotes and comments. All the sub 1000 SP accounts, collectively, have enormous power.
The problem is that they are not using it to support each other. Instead, many are giving their precious upvotes to the trending posts instead.
Perhaps it is time to alter the approach.
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