This place isn't easy for the new users... and the whales keep making it more difficult every time. I wonder if they think the platform should survive with only the posts from themselves. They seem to expect that everyone in here should upvote their posts while they vote each other but no one else.

Let's face it, most of the whales and witnesses in SteemIt are nothing more than egotistical jerks.

That's why we need to support each other and ignore the Trending tab altogether. Don't go there: it's the trash side of Steem.