I'd have to agree with this. I'm not claiming to put in as much time as you do as I just have other commitments at the moment, and I don't expect large upvotes on my posts anyway. But I see people (rhino, for example) posting images from Pixabay and getting decent sums of money for doing so when they didn't even take the photograph themselves. And I wonder why people are bothering to upvote this when good content seems to fall through the cracks and it's clear that they've put absolutely no effort into it.
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I think it's ok for people to vote for content they like, for whatever reason. I don't go to pixabay, twitter, fakebook, imgur, etc., and if I see content here, where I do go, that I like but wouldn't have otherwise found - and it's properly attributed, so not plagiarized - I show my appreciation with my $.02 vote.
I also spend hours on comments, and posts, that I neither expect financial reward for, but share because I believe it's important. I just recognize that not everyone can do that, not everyone wants to do that, and sometimes not doing that is the right thing, so just look for folks doing what they, and I, think is the right thing to post.
Am I wrong?
Yeah, well put. You're right, people have the right to vote for content that they like. I don't necessarily have a problem with it if it's referenced well and of interest. And you're correct in that there is some brief content that I wouldn't find elsewhere if I didn't see it here. But sometimes it's evident that's not the case and that the motivation behind the post or series of posts is purely financial.