RE: Yet Another Attempt At Perspective
Reputation and whale status really aren't that related, so whales could have low reps or high reps depending on what they've done.
Then, it depends on who you decide to call a whale. Most people who use the term are probably including folks that under the steemitboard system are considered orcas. Whales have around 500,000 SP and up, while orcas have 50,000 SP and up. The actual calculation is through what they call vests or MVests, but most people look at the SP approximation.
Even more than that, though, I think people will call anyone a whale that has a certain amount of dollars that their stake is worth. I'm not sure where that necessarily begins as far as these folks go, but anyone with $1 million in USD from SP/STEEEM/SBD holdings is going to be considered a whale, and it probably starts much lower than that, somewhere between $250,000 to $350,000 USD if I had to guess.
If we're including orcas in this whale definition, I would say there are some who may be posting. Most true whales don't. They're mostly delegating to something or someone, and so are a lot of orcas. There's simply more money to be made through delegation leasing.
Nearly all the whales will be Steemit owned or related accounts, developers of STEEM who received stake, whoever might be leftover from the first two who received stake from the initial distribution, or big time investors, but they are the minority of the whales, I would say.
oh ok, no wonder everyone talks about them but few act like they know them
personally..it's just.."the whales".
hey what browser do you use? I've been using Chrome but the last 2 days it won't let me log
into my Steemit acct, even after clearing the cache and cookies.
It loads fine on IE and firefox but it says I have the incorrect password when I try to get back
on with Chrome.
thank you sir.
I used to use Chrome a lot, but a year or so back it started hogging resources and slowing things down, so I ditched it for Firefox and Safari. I do most of the Steemit work in Firefox since it seems the most reliable, and then use Safari for information gathering, just for the variety mostly, since there's no real advantage to it other than it's the native browser for Macs.
I don't know what the problems is you're having with Chrome. Any changes in settings made on any end in an update, on your computer, on Steemit's end can cause problems, and to know which is which can be a pain. If turning off and on the computer didn't reset things, and if nothing else has changed, your guess is as good as mine. I've not had any problems so far with Firefox not letting me in.
is the support people any good or ARE there any support people for Steemit?
lol
Each of us is as good as it gets as far as support goes. There is no formal Steemit tech support as far as I've ever seen. Maybe that'll happen when Steemit comes out of Beta. :)
oh ok..well that's nice to know in case I have a technical problem. lol