Why the tiny votes?

I noticed that this post I did yesterday has amassed a lot of votes, but most of them are tiny. A lot of these people only have a few hundred SP, so their vote is equivalent to less than a new user. I did get a significant vote from whale hendrikdegrote, so I wonder if they are trying to cash in on that. Even so, the curation rewards would be practically zero. Even I rarely get more an 0.1 SBD curation rewards, but I tend not to vote 100% very often as I like to spread my votes.

Small votes

I am grateful when people vote on my posts, but don't expect that I will look at what you do because of it. I judge people by their comments.

I would think that minnows would be better off strategically giving bigger votes to a few posts, but that still might not make them much. Give your votes to what you find good. They can make more from good comments. When I say 'good comments' I mean some that really relate to the post and add to the conversation. I get a lot that do neither of those.

I realise that a lot of these people are not native English speakers, but to get my attention they need to avoid things that look insincere. e.g.

'I wait for your next post'. Have you nothing else to do?
'This is a valuable post'. Well it's really just me posting about my life.
'Thanks for sharing'. Very generic. Everything we do here is sharing.
Comments that ask about some aspect of the post that could be answered by clicking an included link.
Echoing parts of the post back at me with nothing much added.

Some of these people are making hundreds of comments each day in hope of a vote. I really do recommend finding people who share your interests so you can have a real discussion with them rather than just trying to get a comment on every post out there. Just because I've built a high reputation does not mean I have time to respond to dozens of comments and I will tend to look at those either from people I already know or those what show that you are really interested in what I do. The rest are likely to be ignored and anything really spammy WILL be flagged.

I'm just a regular guy with not enough time :)

By the way, I see the Steemit Alexa rank is still falling. I really hope it can recover soon. It was in the top 1000 in March. It deserves to be up there again.

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