Hi Hive account@chbartist , I think Hive account@msicc and I may have had encounters with the same sort of people. I won't vote on posts with accumulated reward value greater than a few dollars and not at all on posts that have been promoted with upvote-bots.

I know of several well-established account holders, who do scold plankton for upvoting their posts and are not above hurling accusations of theft as the motive for LIKING their posts. They do understand the platform completely, some are developers, and their attitudes are well-informed. I have a few such encounters documented in the comments of my last post here:
https://steempeak.com/steem-bounty/@justmeagain/why-i-do-declare-it-s-1861-in-the-steem-world-social-experiment-and-a-civil-war-is-unfolding

The HF20 has brought relief to larger account holders from the reward-nibblinng of plankton. Now votes worth less than .02 will have a value of ZERO and will not impact rewards. Plankton can now upvote as much as they want, but they will earn ZERO curation rewards by doing so.

I will refer you to the Dust Vote Threshold Changes section of the HF20 Update linked here:
https://steempeak.com/steem/@steemitblog/steem-velocity-hardfork-hardfork-20

I have limited commenting credits, so I may not response quickly to your reply, but I did want to make sure that we all understand the HF20 changes and what we should expect from the Steemit platform from now on.