I believe in the platform and I not only invest back my SBD into steem with the dream of reaching dolphin (well I just recently graduated into minnow and working to get my 1st 1k) so that I can spread my vote farther. I also invest my time as I make sure I reply to each comment and reward good comment a with upvotes and making sure they are past the dust threshold. I am a minnow afterall haha .
I network, I help build Communities and one of which is the Promo-mentors who has the mission to help retain people by supporting projects and people with our community vote. I am so sure of the level of quality of the posts that they support that it is one of the few Community trails that I follow. Majority of my votes go to manual curation.
I upvote an upwards to 700 votes a way of almost 300 account that I interact. This shows because I am in the top 10 engagers in Asher's league of Engagement.
I admit though that there are some accounts on my auto vote and half of the reason is knowing they do good posts and thus I get good curation rewards and the other half is because I have made some human connection with them.
SBDs that I earn only go to power ups, some Charity works and once every 3 months as a reward to myself in a form of a book or a video game.
I am in Steem and will continue to be a content creator, content curator, and investor.