no need to remove whales. Flagging / downvoting done by enough minnows can negte a whales upvote. in my opinion, if the entire steem community were trained properly, if people truly saw the makup tutorial as a waste of steemers time, then 10,000 minnows could have downvoted the ned and ted whales upvotes and it would not have trended so long. Right now, minnows simply vote on whatever is trending, because at the moment people are in the bandwagon mindset and not privy to the true blog to educational power of this system