Ahaha so as you can see that I am so delayed in replying to comments so sorry!

I'm guilty of doing that as well of trying to get upvotes to increase the prize pool. I used to resteem like crazy. This was of course a taint by one of the first crappy groups that I was in that required all their members to resteem all posts.

Later as I gained more followers I had someone ask me if I liked the content of all the people that I resteem and said not necessarily but resteem it out of habit. So he patiently explained to me the power of resteeming and the effects of flooding the feed of those that follow me.

From then on a light bulb turned on and I acknowlegded how it should be used.