@goddesseva, I can truly say you are not a shitposter. If anything, I may be guilty of the shitposting you're being accused of making. With my posting output during our time here-- I arrived a month after you-- that would be more likely. Shitposting for a long form article is rare, but I can't say I've never done it. For a comment, that's different. When the numbers are high enough, eventually something happens. I don't worry about, and neither should you. However, any challenges to your posting or intentions cannot go unanswered; those challenges must be confronted.
If either of us don't reply to a post/comment/reply the other makes, it's usually due to timing. You were away for a while, so that's to be expected. We also have time zones between us, and this is what usually gets me in trouble with the timeliness of my replies.
If I can contribute to the discussion you prompt in your posts, I will and I do. If I can't contribute with a comment (because the post is on a topic where I lack experience), I upvote for effort put into publishing the post because I know the time it takes.
I admit that I have asked for upvotes for posts if a reader likes the posts, not because I expect them but because the reader believes the post added value to their experience on Hive. Just like you, I don't expect upvotes if the reader doesn't think I deserve it, and that's OK. It is rare for me to self-vote, and in fact have downvoted myself more than I have self-voted. For auto-upvotes, maybe we're part of someone's curation trail; I notice this a lot at LeoThreads when I ask myself how certain threads got my upvote.
None of us are 100% when it comes to our activities here or anywhere else; we're human beings who happen to also have Hive accounts, so I realize we can miss things. That's just how it is, and knowing the kind of person you are, @goddesseva, I can truly say that you've been excellent with me in how we've interacted and exchanged replies. It's why I look out for your posts before I read my own notifications.
You have more important things to worry about here, whether its commenting on events, catching us up on your trips away from Hive, or preparing for the Bitcoin Halving and the explosion soon to follow in this bull market run. I look forward to your next post. 😎
thank you very very much for your kind words. they mean a lot to me. hopefully, the big guys at the top with the HP get some common sense in them, pronto. not only for our sake - but for the sake of this magnificent platform.