I forgot where i heard this from, but some advertising agency did a study on people and advertisements on websites and found that human's are so focused that they can completely ignore ads to find the information they are seeking (predatory response thats part of having 2 eyes looking forward). This is the same thing with the post that are happy feeling. you can read through the falsity of the post SO quickly that you just ignore them.

but as @herrleeb said, if you need support, you will suck up and play nice. I want to add into that, that if you have NOTHING to add to the steemit community, you will never gain enough status to not have to do that. But if you do have something to contribute, then you wont ever need to pull off that sort of fake behavior. Anyone commenting on my post like that , I wont upvote. Everyone else who posts a meaningful comment gets an upvote depending on how much value they add to the discussion.