The idea is if you get vote support for your witness you will climb the rankings but this is also not correct.

You will never climb the ranking because the top people vote themselves and between themselves into the oligarchy and you aren’t going to get a slice of their pie.

This is provably false. I started my witness campaign 11 months ago, and new none of the existing witnesses or whales before I started. I worked hard for almost a year now, and now I am one of the top witnesses.