As I explained here
It's not the whales ignoring you, it's the trending algorithm ignoring you because a whale hasn't noticed you and bothered to toss an upvote your way. You feel locked in a dungeon because you need a mod to come unlock you so you can level up and keep playing. But there are way too many of us and not anywhere near enough mods. No one is commenting about your insightfulness because no one is seeing you. This is literally a couple lines of code to fix.
Upvoting you because this is an important topic to discuss, but I disagree with your conclusion.
RE: why the steem voting system is an upvoting whales club of Tactical Push-Up voting oligopoly