Wow, what an extensive overview, thank you! Didn't know about the treshhold, I was wondering then where my one or two cents disappeared, good old times 😂
#busy is also a tag you can add to your list, they vote once all twelve hours, but I think it is a little overused, once I got an upvote after two days, but then again none at all.
Yes, I'm afraid those pennies now effectively do get guzzled up by the whales and dolphins.
I think with busy you need to post through busy to get an upvote? I may be wrong? And I read something somewhere about why you shouldn't post through it.... can't remember the details, so best say no more for now.
I like the interface of busy but don't like to post from there because when I write long articles in the browser, sometimes the drafts disappear when switching sites, which never happened to me on steemit.com, even when i closed the browser accidentally.
I'm not sure if you have to post from busy.org, there were times when i posted from steemit.com and got their upvote anyways with the tag. They have two upvoting bots, busy.pay and busy.org.