This is good advice. I think if more people with a lot of SP upvoted well-written comments, it would do a couple of things. It would gain a larger audience for the post author's future posts. It would also build morale for anyone who's comments are rewarded with money. The people who make serious moiney on Steemit are the early adopters and whales. When they upvote their posts, they can make a nice return on their own votes. But that won't sustain Steemit. Helping minnows to succeed will grow the platform into the future imo.
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Great comment. The white paper which details the methods and purposes of Steemit makes the same points you do.
Most folks are unaware that Steem was mined just like BTC or ETH in the beginning, and the majority of Steem extant today was mined then, rather than produced thereafter. Those initial stakes remain the largest whales on Steemit, and few of them do much curation as the white paper stated was the purpose of rewards.
I get that these folks are busy, and their fortunes are as secure as Steem is, so they have no need of improving the success of minnows to improve their own fortunes. Worse yet is that by self voting, or voting in collusive cliques, they are able to 'mine' the rewards pool for far more than they could get by curation, which is also a lot of work.
I suspect that the amount of work required to maximize rewards is exactly why HF19 reduced the number of votes required to expend VP by 400%, as reducing the number of votes cast by minnows is demonstrably bad for Steemit, by decreasing the interaction between those users most benefiting the platform.
There is a lot to be said for hard work and patient persistence, and I know folks whose present accounts are due to nothing else. As for me, I just sorta ignore money altogether, and focus on discussion of interesting things with people whose thoughts I find valuable. I find it difficult to cope with the VP decay, however, as I really do tend to comment around ~100 times/day, and feel really awkward that I can only vote ~10 times.
This has caused me to actually greatly reduce how much I am on Steemit. I'm looking forward to some improvements to the interface the devs are promising to reveal soon, and hope that they will then fix the VP decay curve.
I hope you aren't offended to not get my measly $.02 vote, as I am trying to let my VP recharge, but really wanted to let you know how much I agree with your comment anyway.