I drained most of my voting power just after the hardfork, so you're not along in doing this mistake ;)

I also agree with your philosophy of commenting without upvoting. A comment without an upvote is a lot better than getting neither a comment or an upvote, at least in my opinion :) I tend to enjoy connecting with people, but my voting power would be at 0 % if I were to upvote everything I read or commented on.