Something interesting of note about this post. If you go on YouTube and look at the stats below the video, it says the video has only 176 views right now, but looking above, I see 236 up votes here on Steemit. I'm genuinely curious why that is? I remember not too long ago that YouTube would stop counting at 300 for some reason on high volume videos, and then add the stats later. I'm wondering if there's still some artifact there.
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There does seem to be a lag. The views usually do catch up with the upvotes and eventually surpass them. Some people may be upvoting it just because they believe it will get upvotes in the future which will help them with their curation rewards. In this case they are betting that my reputation and history for creating valued content will continue. I understand that some people view this as unfair (assuming it is even happening) however I personally have no problem with it. They are betting that I made good content instead of consuming the content directly. The way I see it I would lose these auto-upvoters (again assuming they exist at all) the moment I stopped creating quality content.