Nice rant @bashadow!! I don't often 'hear' you all riled up like this ;)
So, a couple things, but I'm going bullet style for you here :
- The only trail I follow anymore is c-squared or/and asapers, when my VP allows for it. I turn it on and off because I don't want to be that person showing up everywhere with 0.0 votes going on! But, davemccoy once said that even a little percentage on a curation trail, added up with everyone else's is worth something. Two sides of that coin :)
- I think all those 100% votes from lower reps you're showing might be out of necessity? Perhaps they don't have a slider yet? BUT, I do have a slider and always make sure that I'm not giving someone a zero vote either, in fact, I'm constantly checking steemworld to make sure of it.
- I quit following a couple curation trails because of the bs I was essentially voting on! I was embarrassed to see my name attached to some of those posts!
- I too hate spam :)
The micro votes from very large accounts may count for something, but 14 votes added up to $0.004. While 15 votes from redfish (yes sliderless) added up to $0.014. I know a lot of it is out of necessity for the redfish, but for me this was an eye opener. I need to be much more careful on my voting during these depressed price times, especially when it comes to comment votes verse content votes. Content I can vote at lower levels, a penny vote is fine on a piece of content that will pay out. But my comment votes, when left I need to work on getting back to a two cent above dust threshold.
So my voting numbers will likely continue downward, but I just have to look at it as if I am a fat redfish with limited a number of votes.
When you put it like that @bashadow, it makes perfect sense!
Lately I've been unable to upvote comments, even on my own posts, because I simply do not have the power to do it. So what I've been doing instead is replying to a comment, then making my way to that person's post to upvote it instead. I feel badly about it, but at least that way I know they're getting the vote and it's not being thrown away in the dust bin.
"So my voting numbers will likely continue downward, but I just have to look at it as if I am a fat redfish with limited a number of votes."
Ditto! :)
I think a lot of people are doing just that, going over to vote a piece of content. Comments generally only have the one person voting, If I can manage a two cent vote I will, but like many I have backed off on comment votes, and moved more to content vote.