Those are great values to uphold good sir.
I've commented a similar thing today on another post, if this site is genuinely about curation of good content then that's where votes need to go. I can see as personalities and the community grows perhaps really decent content can get lost to the plethora of highly popular authors posting very regular content that sometimes might not be as strong as it's value might suggest. I'm not saying that's a general rule as there are also loads of popular, regular authors who happen to smash it out the park everytime with rich entertaining content. Papa-pepper being one of those for example. And for sure these guys are what keeps the platform greased with regular content and discussion, but I think there's also the chance that people will vote for an author's content who they support, regardless of the true value, as they have an emotional affinity to the author. It's natural for that to happen, and it's reflective of real life but perhaps not a proper "curation" technique...
Thumbs up for taking a considered and balanced approach rather than solely for personal gains.
Also, like @stellabelle just wrote in another post - you never know if you're talking to a future Whale! Maybe even a Golden Whale, and maybe they upvote ALL your content for giving them a chance early on...we're all whales at heart :P