Learning to front run bots is a good skill to learn for your future payouts. I still do this thanks to you. I have several places I can go to and vote before bots get to them and I do this daily. I realize this is small potatoes, but If I get 0.020 instead of 0.001 on many votes a week, it makes a difference over time.

Sadly, that 5-10 cents a week is more than noobs get on all their posts in many cases.

Upvoting comments, especially your own for visibility, is something many people here frown upon. I have been talking to several people who were doing that rampant comment voting for a while and since have stopped. The reason they stopped was that they kept getting bad remarks about it. I cannot believe you support this idea.

But I'm not someone trying to get whales to upvote my replies, so I do not know the ins and outs of what they vote for. I almost never even visit those posts and when I do, I retreat quickly. I am sure this is to my own detriment, but I cannot take the butt kissing up there.

I agree that if you get big votes on a comment after you voted it you can get money for it. This may have happened to me 10 times in a year and a half. I upvote good comments on my posts and others frequently and as far as I know this is charity on my part, even though small.