After the HF20 balls up, my intention was to wait until Sunday 30th September until I did my first post. By that time, my VP/Mana would be over 90% and everything hopefully will be fully operational
Many have chosen to start posting and commenting days before, but I didn’t want to do this as it would have felt like when I started on Steemit 6 months ago; little feedback or reward.
As it stands, 
So why am I focusing on all this auto-votes and not the interaction which many think is the most important aspect of Steemit?
The interaction is important and I value the comments I get on my posts, and ALWAYS respond and vote them up if they are not a deliberate attempt to just gain a vote, but I also value the auto-votes I gain from every post too.
Most of my votes come from these, and to be brutally honest I don’t want to type an article up for a total reward of $0.15 for my efforts. Let’s face it, when you get a big vote from someone, don’t you get a kick out of it?
It may only be $0.30 or less, but you get that appreciation feeling. Before today that was not going to happen because we have all had our VP/Mana temporarily depleted.
‘So… its all about the votes and the money with you is it?’, you might say with haughty disdain.
If it is, then check out my history. I have pumped my account full of STEEM in the last 6 months, and taken nothing out. If it was all about the money for ME, then I would be powering down on a regularly basis and spending all that money.
I have no intention of powering down for a long time. I want my SP to grow. Let me tell you if I won the lottery tomorrow, I would power it up so my vote was $100, and tell nobody.
They would soon notice that I was handing out $20 votes instead of $0.08 ones, and I mean to the people I interact with now. It would give me a hell of a kick just to do this and to help all the people I care about get bigger.
I like the fact now that I can hand out decent votes to my regular followers, but with 30%-40% VP, what is the point? For me my Steemit account was really under maintenance and not working.
So that’s my explanation of why I have been missing from Steemit for a week and why this is the first of my coming back posts. I hope by the time this is posted that all those auto-votes that many don’t like too much are back.
Maybe they have no interaction with the post, and maybe they don’t even read them but they grow our accounts so we can dish out bigger votes.
Don’t kid yourself by taking the high ground and stating, ‘It’s not all about the money’; it's not and I agree with that comment, but would you really be doing this if there was no money at all?
Ask yourself that question and if you can truly say, ‘Yes I would write all these 500 word articles that take me lots of time for nothing’, then I guess we are not really on the same wavelength.
If you found this article so invigorating that you are now a positively googly-eyed, drooling lunatic with dripping saliva or even if you liked it just a bit, then please upvote, comment, resteem, engage me or all of these things.