We all dream that one day we will have a whale friend who will support, and guarantee us fat payouts. It sure sounds like a neat plan. Only thing is, it's not going to happen! The sooner new steemians realize it's useless fishing for whales, the better experience they will have on the platform.
You might argue that if you write really good and original material then surely some whales will notice you. While this can really happen to anyone and it's an interesting thought, in reality, you will be left disappointed. I'm not saying that whales don't vote. On the contrary, lately more and more whales are active and if one gets lucky he or she might receive a 20-30$ vote.
Whales are mysterious creatures, and from what I've been seeing for almost a year now is that most whales vote randomly, they rarely leave comments or read articles at all. You can get a whale vote just for posting a silly meme or by writing a really good article. It makes no difference to them, they will upvote anyway. To back up my theory, one of my comments received a vote from one of the biggest players on Steemit, @blocktrades. First of all, I'm grateful for all the support I have been receiving from them, but this doesn't change the fact that it was just a random vote. And it's worth almost as my last post. Someone commented the typical " I upvoted you, now you upvote me" comment that I really find repulsive, so I left a little message in the comments that this is not the way Steemit works. After a while, I received an upvote from @blocktrades, and I thought that it's a nice gesture, trying to encourage steemians not just to ask for upvotes. When I opened the post by @sanevys it turned out the post received also a nice fat payout, which is nice but also the guy who asked for votes got an upvote, which is ridiculous. So there you have it, most upvotes by whales are purely random and it's actually a good thing because anyone can get lucky. But trying to catch a whale is just silly, and not what Steemit is all about.
PS, yes I did flag it :)
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