I have been having a few of those thoughts recently and im new here since new years eve ad have recently touched on this in a few of my blog posts so far. I'm doing my best to use my social media skills to attract new people here and educating them but then I just constantly see a whole heap of whales that just seem to have monopolised this platform and don't really care about the long term new blood. I know the introduction there is a whole bunch of how to get started tips but there is certainly to much crap rolling downhill from whales that make a few thousand from some of the worst quality posts I have ever seen. It is such a huge effort right now it seems that those that a re winning right now have to create some kind of lottery fund to be seen. Not enough help at all from those at the top sadly and I know there are those whales who do help and look to educate new people but I have certainly met a lot who came here and gave up because they put so much effort in their posts and can't justify why some piece of crap made a couple of thousand. I do believe that the long term building genuine relations sharing value etc will work but it seems like a place where only the strong will survive. We are all human its hard not to think of the financial benefits but its hard to focus on just the fun when you see the growing amount of trashy posts in the trending. Would it help if more people exercised their downvote or does that leave us vunerable because some one with a higher reputation could wipe us out?