I do both. I vote for people's posts or comments if I like it.
Then once every few days will go to the comments page and upvote a bunch of my comments that are close to payout date.
Just to get something from them at least, by the time I do that my voting power are fairly low already.
Just recently got my vote slider so was voting 100% all along.
I am partially addicted to voting and mostly have 40% - 60% voting power.
Interesting, thanks for sharing your process. Why do you wait until the last minute to upvote your comments?
I do it this way so that most of the voting power goes to helping other or as they say new content.
Then when the comments are close to payout I just upvote them with what ever voting power is left so to make at least something.
Feels more fair to me than to just self vote myself.