I understand it is annoying as you get many requests. I was one of those minnows who sent you a private message and asked for an exchange of votes.
It is bad out there, minnows are worried they are not making enough money. They are confused, and then they see and read posts about how some guy made thousands of dollars in a year, or more so they read a post by The Dollar Vigilante whose first ever post on Steemit earned about 15K USD.
Minnows being minnows get excited and ignore the fact that these big guys were minnows once and they have had work hard to reach this level of success. I know a Steemian who has been working for about 20 hours a day for the most part of the year, and he has made close to a hundred thousand dollars.
It’s chaos out there, and everything is fair in marketing our posts and love.
Anyways, I did love your video about how to earn Upvotes using Steemit.Chat, there’s a very thin line separating your method of getting Upvotes and the direct message method.