Thanks so much for you thoughtful comment. Glad to hear this has helped you and that you intend to share it with others. If you've done enough other posts, maybe do another introduceyourself post once you reach some landmark in your life on here. Maybe you get your first X followers or you start writing on a new topic. You don't want to abuse that powerful label, but try to find a way you really have a reason to introduce yourself to the platform again.

Yes, we give a % of our upvote when we use tools allowing us to (or once we get above 500 SP) because that allows us to preserve voting power. I upvote people a lot for both posts and especially comments, so I'm always running low on VP. So I tend to upvote posts 33-100% and comments 20-50%.