I dont like your phrase,that someone is more important than anyone else over here.
Personally,i think that everybody is important, because all votes are making space for the others,and even small size account votes sum up finally.
I also don't like focusing on "catching a whale" or anything like that,f or me it seems that steemit just became "a profit machine" so people dont care about their posts ,their content.
They just are looking for a whale,and they dont give a fuck about anything else than getting money here, what is big problem in my opinion,because later we have shit posts,multi-accounts and plagiarism.
I dont like the whole conception of "whale" , why do you even bother about them? Do your job and hope that this great community will approve it.