We Need To Talk About Cheapskate Whales...

This isn't a post about the abuse of voting bots or miuse of the flagging system, and it's not about people who self-upvote their own comments and posts. This is a post about cheapskate whales.

What is a cheapskate whale?

Have you ever left a long, thoughtful or engaging comment on someone's post here on Steemit? Really contributing to the discussion and writing something other than, "good comment sir please upvote and follow me"

A cheapskate whale is someone who upvotes a comment left on one of their posts, but they're so cheap they only give you a vote between two and seven percent? Because they've only given you a 2% upvote which equates to nothing, it's dust.

I get it, sort of. Maybe you upvote a lot and you're just making more use of your voting power by splitting it. But when your maximum vote is $1 and you can only be bothered giving a 3% upvote, that's cheap.

And yes, it happens more than you think. I regularly leave long, thoughtful and high quality responses (usually adding to the conversation) and many times these whales don't upvote at all, don't respond or if they do, they give such small voting weight votes they might as well not have voted at all.

I am grateful for everything I have and get on this platform, but when some of these whales give such insulting upvotes for the amount of effort I usually put in, I would rather they didn't vote at all because I find it insulting.

If we want this platform to succeed it's time for the Cheapskate Whales to start buying 4 ply toilet paper for their guests, instead of that cheap 1 ply they're giving us.

Am I overreacting, or does Steemit have a problem with cheapskate whales who don't want to give back as much?

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