Votes and Engagement are needed for success. If I had to pick one that is more important, I would pick engagement. Sure if you get votes you get more steem, but if steem is rejected and does not get engagement the steem from the votes are worthless. Also you can just buy votes, you can not buy engagement(as easy). I think the better people vote, the better engagement will be. So both are equally important. Anyway See you on the moon.

Over and out,
CoinChaos