I am not to worried what other people think. I vote for people articles that I like and every few days go to my comments page and give myself 20% votes on all my comments about to expire. What ever I make from those just gets turned into steempower anyways to make my account stronger to give bigger votes to everyone.

I try and give as many as possible 100% votes on articles and just use 20% votes on my own comments a day or 2 before they expire. This way most of my voting power goes to people's articles.
On comments inside articles, might give smaller votes like 20% - 50%.

O yeah only received my vote slider last week so have not totally figured out the best way to use it.