And I believe it's more helpful for both sides. It basically encourages people to engage, give us something to read.
Yes. I used to get a few votes from blocktrades from time to time and after I had voted on the comments, they would vote on the first 5-6 with 1 or 2 percent. This was 3-8 dollars at the time. It was a massive boost for the commentors. However, i do think that my 7 cents is at least something. On most days, I think 1-2 100% votes goes to comments I get or on other posts.
For you, you wouldn't even notice that amount, on your payout but your followers/friends especially planktons or minnows would be quite happy with that amount + appreciation for a reasonable comment.
I am in a position that I don't require comment votes. It was only last Hardfork that is became a thing and with klinear rewards arriving, the self-vote comment was born.
self-upvoted for visibility yeah bite me. Even the top comment was $0.5 people tripling that amount to get visibility with their own votes.
Frankly, I believe you couldn't get these much comments just with the upvotes it's really worthy that you are truly engaging, reading and responding to each comment as possible. And I'm even feel bad when I already get a good response, asking myself is that vote really necessary we were just talking about a subject that we both into.