Brilliant! By acknowledging the genius of the one who was frontrunning your comment upvoting you have greatly increased the engagement of your comment section and consequently the rewards of doing so. Now your comment section looks a lot more like the way comments did back a year and a half ago when there was much less spam and much more interaction. If more whales (and everyone else too) would take the time to reward those who post thoughtful comments, maybe the comment spammers would learn and become productive Steemians instead of trying to grab a quick penny or two.