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Indeed. But I think it's not only a good way to distribute rewards, but also a better long-term strategy if all you want is profit.

  1. It helps you obtain a base of regular readers and supporters, people who not only upvote you once, but come back and give you more of their own voting power.
  2. By investing in good relationships and in those who follow you regularly, their votes on you will increase in value over time, allowing you to scale nicely over time.
  3. As mentioned in my first comment, by investing in genuine and fruitful contributions, you do help make steemit a more attractive platform, which can increase the value of your steem earnings as the price of steem goes up thanks to more people entering - and staying - on the platform.

Anyways, thank you for your effort to make steemit a more enjoyable platform. I hope I will be making positive contributions to the development of steemit as well.

I up comments when the author has no posts - its also a way to reward the author and let him drink in the cup of rewards

you hate the trending page?
solution : stop looking at it (just kidding)

I'm glad you wrote it out there! At least people could get an idea - not every huge SP account owners see eye to eye with how it is - - a chink of hope :)

for the essence of spreading love - resteemed!

@pharesim I'm about to implement, with the help of @jimitations, a comment-voting project to encourage more community involvement and engagement. It'll be small at first, but will hopefully grow into something that can help minnows reward their commenters.