Why upvoting someone for Their Resteems or Quick Remarks can be a Big Mistake‼️ 🚩

Sometimes I forget, people don't see what I see. I make one of my blunt remarks and people get upset at me. Just because they have no idea why I said it... Anyhow, why you shouldn't upvote people just for their resteems and quick remarks... (Talking about the comments section of your posts here!)

Who is it really, that you are upvoting?

First of all, I am not saying that upvoting people for a resteem or quick remark is by definition a bad thing to do, it really depends on who the person in case is! If a known Steemian says nice post it is very different from a person with no reputation at all and a comment section full of the same kind of remarks. It's all about the intention behind it, and this is something I've seen several people been lacking in. To judge whether a comment was ment with honesty or just a way to get upvotes.

Now the person I am gonna use as an example I've been following for a while myself, but after seeing the same practice continuing, even trying to explain him what he is doing is only hurting himself, without getting any respond, I was clearly done with it... In case he might read this I really hope he re-thinks his "strategy", as I only say these things with good intentions. So the person I am talking about is @onealfa. We're going to use the following post to show what I mean:

https://steemit.com/colorchallenge/@onealfa/colorchallenge-friday-skyblue-sunny-september-afternoon-today-in-mallorca-8

Currently in this post, of the top 7 comments, only one did not resteem. In this case he is mostly rewarding people just for resteeming. Now the problem with this is that most of those people who did the resteems, only did so because they know he will upvote them for it. Most of them don't even make their own posts. This still ain't too bad considering not everyone blogs. And he should choose how he spends his upvotes, right? So no further harm in it... Wrong! He is only making it worse for himself. Because the resteems being made from those accounts often only have followers that entice the same kind of behaviour (you know, the follow4follow, resteem4resteem crap). Why would any sane person follow someone that only resteems random posts. So by upvoting these people, they will continue the same behaviour. And by doing so, more will follow to do the same. The law of attraction.

Vice versa, same applies

Now the same applies to upvoting quick remarks. Either by upvoting people in your post for being one of the first to comment, or simply for making a comment, and with the same upvote value as everyone else in your post, people are less inclined to actually engage. I've seen so many posts filled with crap comments, and I could just see the same kind of people come back over and over because they get rewarded for it. It's kind of funny to see how quickly this can change when you start changing your behaviour towards rewarding your followers for their comments.

If you want real engagement, real followers, all you have to do is upvote them for what you believe to be value of comment, and in turn more will follow. The law of attraction.

So how do you know someone's intentions?

Now to give you some simple tips how to spot if someone is genuine or not. Check their blog, see if it only consists out of resteems or not. Secondly, check their comments made, look at the time difference between each post and what kind of remarks are made. Are they made in a short time spawn of one another? Are they of actual depth, or are all of them very general remarks? Maybe it takes you a bit of time at first to notice the rotten apples, but eventually you will spot them very quickly!

So have you noticed this kind of behaviour?
Were you perhaps the one that upvoted everyone, because you have too much love ;)?

Let me know in the comment section!

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