Hey there! I just read your entire post too. There are real people here who love to read good content. I have a love/hate relationship with Streemian and curation guilds because I believe that a good foundation is building community through COMMENTS and not so much blind upvotes. I'm definitely more excited when I see the red tab for comments.
As for the money... If that was my only motivation, I might have stopped a long time ago. As early adopters and beta testers, we have to consider that everything has the potential to change.
I think we feel the same, I enjoy responses to postings just as much as seeing upvotes. It's hard to guage what people are interested in tho when you get money value but no interaction from the community on a posting. You have to value comments/upvotes/money seperately. I guess without those blind upvotes I probably would have left... I don't want money to be the only motivation, but currently it is. This post has changed my thinking on nobody reading, i am surprised.
Thanks for stopping in @merej99 I try to upvote all your posts and you have a nice following