The Steemit Donkey's only upvote comes from @ranchorelaxo (his cowboy boyfriend) and his own self upvotes (made possible by his cowboy boyfriend's SP delegation to him). Without self upvote and rancho vote, his posts are worth about 3$ each. We saw this last week when rancho didn't upvote a bunch of his posts. See my blog, I wrote a post about it with screenshots.
thanks for the reply, i now get why this BS gets paid $200 per post. Frankly its not even worth 3 bucks.
Well, if rancho stopped voting altogether, you would see that 3$ disappear once people realized they couldn't get any curation rewards from upvoting his posts before rancho gets there.