Admittedly, I vote for myself; I truly believe my work deserves that love. (...and at this point, my upvote value is symbolic, anyways.) There are some caveats, though — I never vote my own comments, because that feels...gross. I only upvote my post after a few hours, to make sure that I'm one of the lower cuts of curation. And I never post more than once a day, as the long stories or thorough photography that I do best takes me hours at a time to edit and put together. It adds up to about five upvotes a week for myself.
It's important to me that I spend time manually voting in my feed, and auto supporting some of the people that I know put out well created content day after day. It will take a long time to reach the point where I'm worth something for real, but I'm counting down to when I earn my slider so I can upvote every thoughtful comment on my work. Thanks for throwing this out there...people sometimes forget that the community aspect is such an integral part of the success of this platform.