A well rounded overview on the #newsteem setup, thoroughly enjoyed your insights and definitely found some nice ideas to tinker around @abitcoinskeptic
Never used bots nor upvoted myself, voting on comments I too had to stop for same reasons, now to relook at delegation, rethink this curation method many are now discussing as a fair way of supporting each other.
Congrats on achieving your goals.
Thanks.
Good to hear you never used bots or selfvoted. I selfvote because if I don't value my stuff, who should?
I've stopped vote-buying and trading and barely delegate. I don't think there is anything wrong with delegating, it's just no longer something I want to do much of.
One thing I've been doing is supporting a lot more initiatives, I give auto-votes to curation posts from things like theluvbug, steemitbloggers, ocd, qurator, etc. to help them out.
I've set up an auto vote now to follow curators I really like. It's a little technically challenging and I plan to write about it after I've mastered it.
Sometimes I even manually curate their suggestions when I have time.
Trading becomes too much in a day, best to find and support tokens/coins where I feel the project/community are there for the good of everyone. Too many jumping on-board in the vein hopes of making money.
Much like you I support certain communities with visiting and auto-votes in case I miss them, one day I may find time to curate, today is not that time still too busy with daily life within the home.