I have an idea to combat that. It might not bring whales and thousands of bucks, but it does help to keep posts that you like visible. It is sort of going around the whole voting mechanism. It is sort of like those curation aggregation posts that usually end upon trending, but decentralized. You write something cool? Add a couple of links to the stuff that you liked, but didn't get traction for sevral hours.

Here is an explanation of this idea. Perhaps it is somewhat less coherent than this comment, but I try.

https://steemit.com/steemit/@xanoxt/another-idea-for-spreadthepower-minnowsunite-payitforward-and-others-be-proactive-link