DIFFERENT REASONS WHY I UPVOTE POSTS

Hello friends,

How are you doing today? I want to talk about different reasons why i upvote posts.

No doubt the main reason why we upvote a post is for steem power reward and this is why i upvote posts too. But their are other reasons why i upvote a post.

Some people tend to upvote only their friends post but i find this has an unwise thing to do, but that is just my opinion. I upvote my friends posts too no doubt, but i can also upvote any other person's post since i will also get a reward from it. I think steemit is bigger than just upvoting your friends post.

These brings me to more of the other reasons why i upvote posts and the reasons are stated below:

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• I upvote a post for big reward.

For me i upvote authors post that i know has the potential of getting a lot of upvotes because i know that i will get big reward from there. I think people are also on steemit for the monitory reward and so i like to maximise it as much as possible. I this case there is a timing of how i upvote that will make the reward big.

• I upvote posts to get followers.

For me i follow people who upvote mine post, especially when they consistently upvote my post. So i some cases when i consistently upvote a persons post, it is because i want the person to follow me too. It has worked for me several times but it is still not a guaranty that if you consistently vote somebody, that the person will follow.

So do not take it personally if you want somebody to follow you by consistently upvoting the person and still the person doesn't follow you. The person does not owe you anything because you choose by yourself to upvote the person.

• Also i upvote posts to get an upvote back from the author.

For me also i tend upvote some posts to get upvotes back from the authors on my post. Some authors that i upvoted their post have upvoted mine back too, so it works. But again if this is the reason why you upvote some authors post and you don't get upvotes back from them, do not take it personally because they do not owe you anything since you are the one that choose to upvote their post.

• I upvote post to encourage steemians especially newbies.

If you are a newbie just joining steemit, there is every tendency that when you post, it will not be upvoted by anybody because they are not quite familiar with you and this can be discouraging. So i upvote newbies who are not getting any upvote on their post just to encourage them and to make them know that somebody sees their works. Though this should not be the case. I belief that you can upvote anybody's post not just the people know provided you like what you see.

• I also upvote posts because i do not want the votes to waste.

For example, if i am about going to bed and my voting power is close to 100% i try to vote some more post before is sleep, so it cannot reach 100% and start wasting. If your voting power is at 100% and you don't use it, it will waste, so in other for it not to waste i upvote posts before going to bed.

• I also upvote good quality content post.

Of course, who doesn't like to upvote good quality content post, the fact that it is high quality is what attract people to upvote it, me included. But for me it might not always be because it is high quality i will upvote it, but also because i find the post interesting.

Thanks for reading.

If you have other reason why you upvote posts, kindly share it with me in the comment section @everyone.