Everyone seems to be holding back the upvotes due to the 5% hit on voting power, I been noticing the very same thing. All we can do is keep kicking out great content and pray it catches fire at some point. I had a lot of great upvotes hit but hitting a very slow period the last 3 days or so. Probably how it will be for a bit till everyone figures their game with voting power. I get the same thing, loads of comments but not much income coming back in.