My up vote? I keep my slider between 20 and 25% because I up vote a lot of people ever single day for the last 500+ days in a row :) And I almost always up vote replies to me too, at around 15%.
I think everything Lin does is worth a lot. I've been voting up her stuff for almost 2 years now. She's super cool! :D
I love that you are a manual curator and not just a robot. It is nice to meet actual humans here on Steemit.