I disagree but I fully respect your position on the topic. Seriously and sincerely.
I think that in other posts I already talked about this. For me "upvoting" in Steem means: the work you did in order to create this post is worth my upvote.
In other words: I don't always vote posts which I agree on. For example, I upvote some posts which are about technical analysis although I hate that pseude-science. If the creator has published a post which shows it is just not some words put together and if the creator has added some external sources, then it is worth my upvote. All that for the technical analysis kind of post. For the other ones, I just value the work needed for it. Result is almost the same, yeah; but it happens that I don't upvote many technical analysis posts while I do upvote many posts, even the ones I disagree.
Then the comments. Comments are to show the feels that the post caused on the reader -or viewer, in the case of DTube-. Also, that's the way to express what the reader thinks about the topic on the post.
So, to me, these are two different interactions, and the one doesn't imply the second has to take place. I could suggest, for example, to the creator to add the NSFW tag on the post, if that would be the case. I would think that the creator hasn't added it in a intentional manner. And that would not worth my upvote but, as myself would like content in Steem to be better every time, then I would comment.
I will, however, agree on you in the case when people comments with a "I liked your post" but they don't upvote it. That doesn't make sense to me. I call them "divos" -in Spanish, I don't know what the translation to English would be-.
I am sorry about the length of this reply and hope that more people also reply to the post
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Sometimes when I like a post and I want to upvote after I have commented, I realize I don't have the voting power to do so (when my voting power is below 50% I want to recharge more than I want to give an upvote, even when I love the post so much)! That's a really tough moment!
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