Similarly, I practiced almost everything you preached in this posts. I am also an investor who dump in rock hard cash to buy in. Naturally, trying to maximize ROI is the first thing in my checklist. I did struggled for awhile(probably many years) to refrain myself from upvoting myself 🤣 but then in the end, when I look back into my total HP and asked myself, what's the point? Later I have participated in #ecency curator program, and beginning to discovered the beauty of "as a curator, why I shouldn't upvote myself even nobody is going to curate me?". How much my post earned, is exactly how much it deserves. It has absofuckinglutely nothing to do with another person who has 1billion HP that self upvote their post to get 1million HBD and NOT upvoting 1% of their HP towards my post. That is when I have really opened up and beginning to enjoy the journey of writing, engaging, and curating.

Additionally, I will mention that I am not going to be upvoting creators that have a KE less than 1.0,

I don't understand the part, not rewarding those who has KE below 1.0? Which means, you preferred people who withdraw their HP to Hive and subsequently took the money out of the system, then people who have been powering up(which will result in KE below 1.0)? Correct me if I'm wrong.

nor will I be voting for anyone who does not have at least 150 HP in their account, not delegated, nor majority HP delegated away.

Duly noted on the criteria and I understood I'm NOT qualified to earn your vote. I have delegated almost 80% of my hive power to communities that DO NOT have an ROI payout, neither do I post on that community everyday to earn my "entitled" upvote. And I like to play around with AI photo creator, especially the one from #ecency 🤣 so I delegate a small portion to earn me some points, so I can play with the AI photo creator on a regular basis (there goes 300 points for the picture generated in this post).

You have a good hive journey ahead. I was just very curious of your post and took the time to curate it. Keep the power up going and may the hive power be with you.