If you got votes then it's working correctly. The VP got down quite a bit, and that influences our sustainability metrics, resulting in temporary period of low recharge rate for vote values. It's back in the target range now, so vote values should normalize back to what you're used to.
You sponsor accounts for Hive SBI support by sending HIVE with their user-name in the transaction memo. Both the sponsored account and the enrolling account receive 1 Hive SBI unit for each 1 HIVE received.