Thank you very much for your awesome comment, I appreciate it. I know that some people (established Steemians) are only upvoting people who upvotes their content. So they support each other so to speak, like a team, but I cannot endorse such behaviour because I think it's an act of greed or at least selfishness.
I upvote as many authors I can, no matter if they support me or not, because I believe in the "pay it forward" motion. I think that more upvotes equals an overall improvement to the community... But it wouldn't be wrong to focus on just a handful of authors either, in an attempt to build their accounts rapidly.
That being said, I have found myself upvoting the same authors multiple times per day, and I have decided to reduce the percentage on each vote, because I don't think it's fair for them to receive a much higher percentage in total only because they're very active.
Imagine this scenario:
We have 1 author who gets a 7% vote, and this author only publish 1 article per day.
Then we have 1 author who publish 6 articles per day. I personally don't like to take away percentages from these authors, but at the same time, I don't feel really comfortable giving them 7% votes on 6 articles per day either.
So I have reduced the percentages a little bit, so now they might get 7%, 3%, 2%, 5%, 4% and 6% instead... And that's because I don't want them to get "all my VP" meanwhile others gets less.. And it still gives me the opportunity to support them.
I totally agree with your points of:
Going against you vote, I vote you kind of activity and support as many as possible without expecting them to vote out posts. In the process, we may get some of those people's attention to get some support and that will be a bonus. When @fulltimegeek has done so much without expecting anything from us, I feel it's our duty to take that forward without expecting the rewards from those guys whom we reward.
Upvoting same authors, this I have also observed. I started supporting some of the guys when I saw their posts are of good quality and setup a fanbase to reward their posts whenever there is a new post. But some people started taking advantage of that and started posting many low quality ones and that provoked me to revoke the fanbase for them. Having said that, there are guys who value the votes we cast on their posts and are grateful for even tinier of our rewards.
Looking into your views, I feel we have so many similar points and same thinking.
Thank you very much for your awesome comment @coolguy123. It sure looks like we have the same type of mindset and goals in many ways. :)
That's why I don't want to auto upvote anyone.. Even though I know more than a handful of Steemians who would never start to publish low quality just for the sake of rewards... But it feels better to manually vote on everything. However, that also makes me miss out on a few articles from time to time, which is a pity.
I really hope those people are excited to be getting those votes 6x a day! I agree with you there it is definitely about greed and selfishness, but again hopefully people who are feeling a bit perturbed over how you use your vote get a bit more understanding of why you vote the way you do. I know it must be aggravating to know that people can be this way, but unfortunately it is that way sometimes! Just know even tho you and your team are just the little guys you are making an impact here on steemit, otherwise the stewardsofgondor would have never called upon you to share the wealth. Keep doing it the way you are and the outcome will be huge later, not only for you but for those who understand where you are coming from! Enjoy your night/day and I look forward to seeing more!
Hey hey, take it easy with the difficult words. I'm from Sweden and not native in English! :P
The voting pattern above was just an example but yeah, that's pretty much how I've been doing things. I also don't care about curation rewards, so I upvote content even if it's not within the 30 minute window people are talking about and whatever. That doesn't affect me at all. What matters to me, is to upvote content so the authors makes something more than they would've done without my vote. That's how they will grow and also how we will grow with time. At least that's what I'm striving for.
LOL....Sorry about that!!
I think you are doing it right, just from what I have read here today. I am helping with the newbieresteem group and just now learning about all the curation and such, but it sounds to me like you have it down! I am glad I found your post, it helps to understand a bit on other people and how the community will grow I wish you luck in all your endeavors, not too big a word lol, thank you for helping me understand just a bit more on the steemit ecosystem! Much appreciated!
Haha, thank you very much for your awesome comments. I'm actually familiar with endeavors. So thanks for using words I can understand without google translate :P
I'm also glad you found this to be interesting and something you could learn from. :)
I have to chime in here if someone is posting 6 times a day, isn't that considered reward pool rape. I was always told by whales that I have had conversations with that you should post more than 4 times per day or you were raping the reward pool.
I would say both yes and no. It could be reward pool rape, but this is basically "the old way" so to speak. Even though some people still follow that.
Ever since the SBD spike before Christmas, many well established Steemians started to produce more and more articles per day. I know a handful of established Steemians who started to produce anything between 5 and 10 per day, all due to the SBD spike.
The sad part is, that I wouldn't mind them doing that, in case they did that prior to the spike too. But prior to the spike, they published 1 or 2. Perhaps 3 things per 24 hour, and as soon as SBD spiked, they got very active...
And that's an act of greed.