Hello steemiens today am going to be talking about why don't the whales support the minnow first of all for our newbies on steemit am going to explain briefly the meaning of minnow and whale on steemit As the Steemit community grows, and users continue to come aboard in the hopes of earning money for liking and uploading content, one thing is certain: not everyone is getting the same piece of the pie.
Some users are able to like content and AUTOMATICALLY pay that user $15 for said content. It's like a big tip, based those people are the whales
The whales are individuals with tone of steem power. If this individuals decide or choose to upvote you on a post you are likely to have 6$ to15$ in reference to their steem power
Why Minnow is a term which is generally applied to a Steemit users who is relatively new to the platform, or, who has yet to built up a large amount of STEEM Power (SP). Therefore, their influence over aspects of the website steemit.com such as voting power and payouts tend to be quite minimal.
Dolphins are the users who have invested a good amount in Steemit platform may be a few thousand into their Steem Power. They are able to give couple of cents to to a content or post with just 1 vote.
why dont the whales upvote or support the minnow
Over the few months i have been here on steemit it has come to my notice that the dolphins and whales don't usually upvote or support the newbies which are the minnow they rather choose to upvote there own post or comment on your post then upvote their comment on your post you will be shocked to see that there comment will have more payout than your post dje to the tones of steempower (SP) they have some may choose to even power down so as to turn the steem power gradually to steemdollar (sbd)
Now what the whales do is to trade their upvote for some certain Amount of steemdollar even when the minnows decide to send them the steemdollar for their upvote they dont give you their full upvote they rather give the minnow 3 to 5percent of their upvote power which will not be higher than the sbd you sent them. Instead of minnow to gain from the trasaction they end up loosing i dont have much to say i only want to beg the whales to stop such selfish heart of nor upvoting the minnows instead upvoting themselves
Thank you
Redhearted