Thanks for exploring this topic. I did an experiment in passivity for about a month in which I concentrated on producing what I considered a quality post every single day. I didn't check my feed, and stayed inside my own blog. When folks commented and or upvoted, I made a point of checking their blog. I also checked some of my favorite blogger buddies regularly.
When they did something I liked, I mentioned and or linked to it in their comments on my blog. I used all my voting power on comments on my own blog.
At the outset I eschewed boosting, but realized that was an untenable strategy for the current steemit environment. Financially the experiment was a flop, but my posts got me nominated to sndbox -- so it was indeed a great success.
Goal one for me is producing quality posts, after all, because of the blockchain they will be around for a long time.
Steem as money is still quite abstract to me at this point. Personally I haven't considered cashing out. Steem power is vital, and a steem wallet gives you flexibility to surprise folks.
Your post & Matt's comment have caused me to reevaluate my upvoting behavior. Thanks to both of you.
I’m glad to hear that:) The more we strive for quality posts of any kind as a unit, the better message the @sndbox will send to the world.
And about the Steem. Cashing out for me means buying Bitcoin lol. My plan is to move totally out of fiat, because who needs coin representing broken financial system anyway?:D In our country I can already buy everything for BTC. Just because "the real" money has 1% or so of the coins "printed" doesn’t make it any less abstract than cryptocurrency:) But if you are not in need of the money, by all means power it up! This place is in need of more conscious curators!
I’m glad that I made you think. That’s after all the main purpose of most of my posts:).