This is way more overthinking about upvoting than I have read in a post in a while lol. I upvote anything I can, I do it blindly as far as what my steem power or whatever that is, and I have never reset my percentage or what not where it gives a post more or less money, it will just give whatever I can at the time. I also throw @randowhale on other peoples posts AND my own posts too. There is enough real life issues, I know whenever I am upvoting someone on Steemit I am happily giving money to someone who is using Steemit like myself, the numbers will work themselves out, there will always be selfish people and people that take advantage of crap, but those people will probably be unhappy even if they were rich so it really doesn't matter.

I got a $20 comment the other day, and that is more valuable than most the posts I make, if I sat and over thought about that I would only be making comments on posts instead of doing my own content and it just seems like a negative path. Good post @flipstar , hope people tone down attacking other users on what they think or don't think this site should or shouldn't be, because Steemit is whatever you think the site is combined with every other person's using it vision of the site is, even if those two people don't agree