Indeed. I've been made aware of captain dust recently, and was like you, using a 1%'er to tag replies that 'didn't need' a reply.
The way I explain above re: hitting a comment with a vote is not so much for a reward (for anyone), just to make yourself seen, and then hopefully heard.
But yes, I'll probably add something in to the post to mention that. In reality, if you are holding less than 500/1000 SP, the focus should be more on league 2 than league 1. Something you might like from 10 months ago (when curation rewards were better than they are today!)
https://steemit.com/curation/@abh12345/curation-rewards-forget-about-it-minnows
Well I read your article @abh12345 and I still don't get the timing of the curation stuff. I don't bother with curation at all now.
Last week I made a point of checking to see if people had upvoted themselves before I voted and I discovered that just about every post I came across, excepting those people in the Leagues vote for themselves and vote early. on exception I noticed was @whatamidoing so he deserves a plug! 😁
Anyhow, since learning about the threshold I just vote the big guys and self-upvotes 1% as an acknowledgement and leave comments as I've always done. This is giving me more opportunity to upvote comments at 0.3c although on busy days I can't do that for everyone. 😢