Yeah, there is this communication gap between the rich and the poor. I hope that this gap will not be seen or be experience here, where whales dont want to lessen to minnows, could it be due to knowledge and experience gap, it coulde be because minnows are poor and they are rich.. The whales are helping(voting) the same people (authors) over and over again and we minnows are the living witness to it, well sometimes they tend to vote others when they have the time.
How a good quality content can earn rewards without advertising the post to chat channels and fb groups (this does not assures good rewards either) is the big problem of the community.
We have to become somebody's favorite for us to start earning enough rewards. You have to be somebody who is famous to earn outright rewards.