You were advised to stop voting or reducing to 1%?
I don't know where you're getting advice from, friend, but here's some advice:
1% votes from an account that has 197 HP don't even make it past the dust threshold. This means:
a) They don't generate anything for the author or the curator
b) They signal that you really don't think much of the value of the piece.
I'd recommend getting some skin in the game and purchasing some very cheap HIVE which is currently at $0.20. Then you can curate and generate some value for you and the authors you curate.
oh wow, dust threshold, now learning about it, I've adjusted anyways so 👍