When you put it like that @bashadow, it makes perfect sense!
Lately I've been unable to upvote comments, even on my own posts, because I simply do not have the power to do it. So what I've been doing instead is replying to a comment, then making my way to that person's post to upvote it instead. I feel badly about it, but at least that way I know they're getting the vote and it's not being thrown away in the dust bin.
"So my voting numbers will likely continue downward, but I just have to look at it as if I am a fat redfish with limited a number of votes."
Ditto! :)
I think a lot of people are doing just that, going over to vote a piece of content. Comments generally only have the one person voting, If I can manage a two cent vote I will, but like many I have backed off on comment votes, and moved more to content vote.