Not a whale nor dolphins will help minnows. In fact minnows are the main source of their energy (money). The more minnow to join the more food source they have (steem market going up, the more money they made). This is the reason why none of them want you to grow, (the competition).

It true, they encourage us (minnow) to create a good content, its because the more the unique view this community made in the search engine. The more it chance to create coins (it's idea is more likely to google adsense but what is good here the system distribute the wealth in favor of whales and dolphines).

I the real world minnows are form a school of fish to protect themselve while hunting food. And this is what every minnow need to do here. But what I observe, minnows here are not grouping, inteads they put away themselve from other minnow and try to fit in themselve in the whales and dolphins community hoping for an attention from them.