Up-voting comments is penalized on HIVE? this is new to me.

My first post was 2 years ago and earned a fat 0 up-votes ( quite discouraging)
At some point I just stopped caring about the monetary aspect so much and just had fun creating fun posts about music.
I still can't say I make a living out of HIVE, but I sure as hell have worthwhile conversations with interesting people, learned a lot, made some decent investments, made a couple of good deals, and created a small but consistent revenue stream.

Oh, by the way, thanks for helping me find my balls and jumping into Cub Finance.