My time and effort is ALL I have to invest, and I am having a little morale crisis I guess. I jumped in and started trying really hard to produce good content, make good comments and learn my way around. I started by entering contests, it was an easy way to jump in. I happened to bump into a "real" internet friend from another website and we chatted a lot. He was very supportive of my efforts. I thought I was doing pretty well, then I found out he had me on autovote. It was a great deal for me, but I don't really want votes I did not earn, and I mean post by post. I think autovote is just as bad a vote bots, if a HUMAN did not read the post, then they should not pretend they did. So, I asked him to please quit autovoting for me, which he did. Now I am getting the "real" minnow experience, and suddenly my income has stopped. One dolphin, my entire success here was due to the attention of ONE dolphin...
Anyway, yes I DO think I produce quality stuff and would love for you to have a look at my blog, and hope I can eventually earn myself a little more influence around here but can't help but notice that, for instance, you have about 30 more votes than views... Good to be king, I guess.