It can lead you to think that way, yes. Some of the voters' names in here are usually on every post of mine, on the other hand, some others I see them very sporadically, so I guess I'd say this post rewards are half and half.

We can't avoid voting for the person and not the content, it's a normal behaviour when a creator has their audience used to certain post quality and engagement, the problem comes when people abuse this autovoters and drop their posts quality.

On the third hand (is that a thing?) you almost never comment on my posts (I remember you dropping by to some a few months ago) but this time you dropped by, I guess the title fulfilled its purpose with you and some others, it encouraged engagement on the post which is something that tbh is lacking on my posts recently.

Who knows, perhaps some people voted after reading the comment, perhaps most of them didn't even opened the post 🤷🏻‍♀️