In the beginning I didn't get to know any Steemit Scrooge, or maybe I was just blind. I was just upvoting every nice comment I received on my posts with 100%. Didn't understand about voting power. I actually never had a bad comment so far from anyone. The more I understand the Steemit platform, the more I was curious about the people who upvoted me, trying to upvote them back as a "Thank you". That's just me. Of course I check their posts too first. So the last couple of months I have noticed there are some people who commented me on almost every post. The comments are all nice. First I upvoted and replied the comments even though I realised that they actually never upvoted me. Starting from last month, I don't upvote their comments anymore, but only comment back. I comment back with "Thank you for reading and upvoting my post ;-). One person got the message but the rest not. Not that there are many.
Sometimes I wonder If they understand the platform. That they also get rewarded for upvoting others. If you are completely new, I understand you may still not understand it, you still need to learn. But If you are already a few months here, you should understand that your upvote is not coming from your wallet.
After some research, I noticed there are two types of Steemit Scrooge:
Of course it is all up to you how much you want to upvote others. But upvoting someone with 0,0--% is not even 1 cent, as a minnow or even smaller, a plankton. It would be different when you would be a whale. But even whales don't upvote with a 0,0--%. At least, I never experienced that.
So, my question is actually, why on earth would some one not want to upvote posts that they like so much that they comment only on the posts? If voting power isn't low like below 15%? Do they really feel that their upvote for some one will come from their wallet? Or are they just greedy? Or could it be envy?
Well, these words above say enough, you won't get a better post or getting more upvotes by doing what you're doing. Instead of being a Steemit Scrooge, we all as minnows should support each other if we see posts with good content and leave greediness and enviousness. Don't we want Steem price to go up and UP? The more we support each other the better Steem price will be, that's what I believe. We won't grow if we would all be a Steemit Scrooge.
So you can decide if you want to be Ebenezer Scrooge or support each other. I choose #2.
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Have you ever had a Steemit Scrooge commenting on your post(s) and not upvoting? How do deal with them?
