Every vote I have cast has gone to a post I have read, more than 90% of them have also gone to posts that I commented on.
I firmly believe that the best way to promote quality posts is to use what little curation power I have to upvote posts that bring value to the community.
While I wouldn't ordinarily link one of my threads from another one, I wrote an explanation of that here https://steemit.com/steem/@timeshiftarts/fear-of-the-upvote
I'll definitely check it out tomorrow! Thanks for being a real steemian ;)
Absolutely. The value of Steem only degrades if it becomes /b/