Best part of this point of view is it's how you find yourself getting "lucky" on steemit. As in, that minnow that you engaged with your content and responded too despite there SP amount may indeed become that whale.
And yes, copy paste is a compliment. It happened to me a couple weeks ago and I was honored someone thought my post was valuable enought to copy past. Of course it also helped it got caught right away so, no harm either.
Yes to everything.
Hahaha to the later part.
You are awesome