Hi @dumar022, thanks for your post. Coming from an "oldskooler" like you it is nice to hear that we " the newguys" are welcomed. About the fact you can not vote for everyone, I told another great user the story I post below. Hope it helps ;)

Hi @surfermarly, I was reading the comments and I think all logic replies are given. What crosses my mind is that the fact that you are even thinking about how to devide your attention and votingpower, shows you are a wonderful person someone would love to be friends with.

Saying this, let's look at it as being a friendship. In "real life" you have a group of friends that you like being with. Since there are only 24hrs in a day and you got stuff to do, you can not devote all your time to them. But you follow them anyways, so it's ok.

In this group of friends there are a couple that you hang out with most of the time. This equals quantity (hopefully also quality haha).

Then there is this one friend you only get together with once in a couple weeks or months, but when you do it feels safe and familiair and you are having a great time. This equals quality.

And there are these friends you hang around with because they are actually more friends of your friends. In some cases you get to know each other better and you grow closer and in some cases you feel there is none connection what so ever. Thats life.

Basically what I am trying to say is that people will appreciate you if you upvote or comment them on every article, but they will also appreciate you when you don't do this on every article but just give one great heartwarming comment once in a while. At least this is what I like to believe...
Hope this contributes a little bit :)

Hopefully Steemit grows out to a even bigger community than it already is with many great articles, upvoted by many wonderful people and that it may even build some new friendships.