My last up-voting experiment worked good, gaining 6 new followers. So this time I tried up-voting in the same manner except this time I did not comment on any post (except 1 because it was so good of a post), up-vote any comments, and I only considered the time from when I started the up-voting to the time of posting this article which was about a half hour total time. This resulted in gaining 3 followers in about 30 minutes worth of time.
Since the first voting experiment I gained a total of 32 new followers, but these were a result of posting articles, re-steeming articles and overall being an active member here on Steemit. Between the first up-voting experiment and this one, it seems that just up-voting articles does help gain followers, albeit not very many. The average between these two simple tests was about 4.5 new followers. The quest for Steemit strategies continues, stay tuned!
Full Steem Ahead!
ps, and if any of you have any ideas or suggestions you would like to see me try, please let me know. Thanks.
0518/2017