RE: Bowling - An interesting game
Yes 0.02 cents, great. But I was trying to help you, since most of minnows like us, don’t know much about the platform and ways of making steem out of the platform. When I first started I too used to believe that self upvote is the only way to make more steem, but later on when I began researching things changed.
This is your stats which says around 53% upvotes are for yourself,which will harm your reputation and also reduce your rewards.
There are other ways such as curating good content and you can make much more than you are making right now with the same upvotes.
You can also read this, it might help.
https://steemit.com/steem/@rajuyadav/how-to-earn-curation-rewards-on-steemit
Saying this to you because minnows account for more than 90% on the steem blockchain, if anybody that can make a difference here is US.
Dear I read you post but you did not define anything about the timing which is one of the most crucial point while taking curator rewards. The one who upvotes first and that after 27 minute the blog was posted, gets the most out of it. Even then you don't get as much as the author gets that is 75% of total reward. Like if a post goes on and earns $10 then author will get $7.5 and all upvoters jointly get $2.5 which is just a quarter of what author receives.
The goal is to earn more than what you are earning right now, not what the actual author makes. For example your current voting power is $1.2, if you just upvote yourself, you get just $1.2, besides that will also lead to voting abuse( if majority of votes are given to self), but if you upvote a good content that can make $25-$50 you stand a chance of making $5-10 (25% curation)and also you have the loyalty of the person, which will also help the platform to grow.
Think about it
Or just upvote this article, and see for yourself, how the rewards change
https://steemit.com/contest/@rajuyadav/loyalty-rewards-for-my-active-followers-2