Sorry, but "DON'T # 3" is quite a stupid advice.
There's absolutely NO harm in upvoting content. It's not that they are wasting 10 hours a day just for upvoting and not doint anything else...
Your voting power restores after a few hours/days. And as long as you don't have a lot of SP, it doesn't matter anyway if you vote with 100 or 0%.
Esp. in that early stage of newbies, it's the vote that counts, not the money behind it.
EVERY upvote counts for me as an author, even if I'm not rewared with SD. There's nothing more frustrating than putting hours of work into an article and then having the feeling of not reaching a single person and not getting any votes due to such thinking.
Don't forget the chance of getting more attention for a post by having a lot of votes, even if they are "just" from "minnows".
Your "Just focus on producing Steem"... That's exactly that type of thinking that might ruin this platfrom
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