I respect the whales. Whales have a thousand or more MVests. That's a billion or more. They literally have a vested interested in seeing Steemit succeed. My only issue is some dolphins and whales only vote for each other. Still, even that is understandable, they "grew up" here together. They know each other. They don't me so why would they waste a big fat valuable upvote on me?
And some have formed clicks. If you like one you cant like the other. I tend to like everyone no matter what their class is...until I have a reason to dislike them.
It is the high school thing I don't care for. All in all it is just like life. Some are good and do great things for the community. And that includes minnows, dolphins, orcas and whales.
Compared to last year, it is a pretty good time to be a minnow, imho