Thank you for such a well thought out comment and the kind words! I really want to help those who are serious and you are one of them.

Don't feel bad about paying for upvotes in the past. Just take today and move forward. We all make mistakes along the way and one of my goals with this is to help get people to stop those practices sooner than later.

As for converting steem to power I do think it's a good idea. The more steem power you have the more your votes are worth. With that comes more responsibility to upvote and comment on only good posts.

If you ever need anything please let me know!
<3 J. R.