Hey @dreamingirwin I will do a follow up post. Thank you for your comment.
The model is profitable and everyone does indeed like the service...well mostly everyone...a few people didn't like that i was manually curating the votes and actually reading posts and commenting from time to time of a personal nature.
I may come back to the up-voting service on a more full time basis...just kind of felt i needed to step back from it.
If you would like to continue using my up-vote service I will gladly accommodate you. I've been noticing how much of a team player you are in the steemit community, and I gotta say, 'you're a cool dude @dreamingirwin
if i decide to stop all together I'll let you know - but in the meantime you're good to go
Thank you. I appreciate that. I'm not a fan of the bots though I've been exploring them in an effort to understand them. And you the @worldclassplayer lol. I originally signed up hoping to earn Steem yet the philosophy in the culture made me a steemian. I'm just working on finding my balance. Thanks again.uh