I've seen an increase in number 5 (voting on expired material that's been paid out) recently, some votes going back to posts from weeks or months ago. I definitely appreciate the gesture but it's a shame when a person depletes their voting power in any amount and it doesn't benefit anyone. I think it's just the learning curve for new users.
I also see #9 happen fairly frequently. Some people use this nearly solely as a source of income which maybe is necessary for them to pay their bills...I'm glad I'm not faced with that situation and I guess I can't really judge or look down on those people if they need the money to put food on the table and keep the lights on.
However, there are plenty who send out a lot of earnings to trade for other coins. I've done this a little bit but not on a large scale. This is the biggest egg in my crypto basket and I normally convert most or all of my SBD's to STEEM and power it up since that steem power can generate additional daily earnings (on top of authoring and commenting) through curation and delegation of steem power.
And of course you've hit on a good point of the spam comments...I get annoyed by them because often the person posts two words and upvotes their own comment without bothering to read or upvote my post. I don't flag them or anything but I certainly don't try and reward them in any way. My wife has seen people with rep scores in the 50's and 60's comment on her posts (these are usually more than 2 words, mostly 1-3 sentences) yet not upvote the post and sometimes they'll vote on their own comments. Those people should know the system by the time they have that high of a rep score. If you find the story interesting enough to read and comment on, then for God's sake give it an upvote even if it's just a few %. Even if it's more of a gesture than an addition to the rewards for the post at least they're voting on it.
Couldn't agree more, look if you NEED the money I can't fault someone for taking it off but we both know the majority of people doing this are those who look at steem as a get rich quick scheme and abuse the platform rather than give back to it! Thanks for reading glad to have a great steemian like you onboard!
Thanks man. Yes there are those whose names I won't mention and also others I'm not even aware of who are merely using this as a get rich quick scheme and are taking value away from the platform and ultimately helping to hold the price of STEEM down by selling / trading so much in for other coins or for fiat. People are free to do what they want with their rewards but they might end up regretting not putting some of those into the form of steem power some day if STEEM hits $10, $20, $50, etc as many people have suggested it could.
Lol you haven't talked to me recently I theorize steem could break $1,000 easily once @shadowbook @shadowchat are online! We already got @shadowbot rolling just wait to see the value we add here! People are going to wish in 2 years they bought more under $5 not sold it!
1,000 0.1% up votes is a nice reward TBH! They can't even spare that yet toss out a comment AND up vote their own comment! MOOCHES: https://steemit.com/steemit/@bigdeej/mooches-vs-givers-who-gets-more-in-the-end-pro-tips