The STEEMillu is a STEEM-based-magazine for the GERMAN COMMUNITY. Of course there are german users upvoting the STEEMillus posts. But what has anything of that to do with a click circle? We don't pay for votes, we don't beg for votes. Every vote we get is 100% voluntarily.
Our post is in german. Who do you think should vote our posts? South Korean who don't speak german and don't understand a word that is written in our posts?
We put more than one day of work in every issue. German steemians see that. They upvote. They read the STEEMillu and it's awesome, fresh and (honestly) sometimes infantile content and they did something worthy. Every article is researched.
A downvote disapproves that. I mean it's your right to use your downvotes as you please. But you also have to understand that we DON'T understand downvotes on our content. :)