Lately I've been seeing a lot of semi high-reputation Steemians upvote my posts while they only have around 15 SP. I'm talking about members who have a reputation of at least 40, so you would think that they've already earned enough to start powering up a bit more.
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Initial Thoughts
I've always found it to be a little bit weird to see someone with a reputation of 40 or even 50 to upvote one of my posts, while they have 15 Steem Power or less even. When I first started writing on Steemit, I couldn't wait to start powering up with the first couple of dollars I made on the platform. I would have thought that most people would think the same, apparently not. There are quite a few people who spend all of their earned SBD purely on bots or cash everything out immediately. It's their right to do so of course, but my gut instinct tells me that they're probably only hear to reap the rewards and do not intend to give anything back to the community.
Comparison to Majority Self-Voters
Whales who almost exclusively self-vote get a lot of flack here, rightly so in my opinion, while people who never invest anything back into the platform usually get a free pass. I do not see them being mentioned, yet they are also just taking from the community without ever being able to give a significant upvote. I'm not going to call anyone out here, but it's not too hard to find these people. If you monitor your upvoters for a while, you'll start noticing them eventually.
On The Other Hand
This post might come across as being entitled, I get that. I should be happy to get an upvote from someone, even if he just has 15 SP. It just kind of rubs me the wrong way to see that they've earned quite a bit of money through Steemit, yet they do not find it important to extend the same support to other members.
I will personally keep investing as much as I can into Steem Power, just so I can eventually give back the support others have given me. I'm hoping to get at least 1000 SP in the next couple of months.
Questions
- Do you know of any additional reasons why someone would not power up?
- Why do you power up, or not?
- Do you think it's fair that some high reputation members never invest anything in buying Steem Power?