A great "side effect" of upvoting is the sweet curation you get as a reward, especially when you start having enough voting power that it adds up to your existing stake and starts to snowball. It makes all the initial hard work worth it
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That is true. On most, if not all, of these platforms, one is actually paying oneself.
So it is of dual benefit.
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