use @dustsweeper to get the payouts. https://steemit.com/@dustsweeper

new people who self vote only see what the rest of the steemit community does, and follows their lead. if you work hard on a comment, or turn a comment into a post, i dont think there is anything wrong with upvoting. especially when most the money in your account is put there, by you. the system is set up to make it extremely hard for little fish to grow at all, and watching people only upvote themselves or circle jerk with hundreds of dollars... thats kinda where it gets unseemly.