I've found @fulltimegeeks approach very novel and effective in voting for people who he would like to support and encourage to remain on the steem blockchain.
As for how I allocate my votes. It's all done manually. I thinks that's half the fun of the steem blockchain. To be able to upvote someone and for that vote to have some monetary value.
My general guiding principles are as follows:
- I try to vote on good content which has a payout value that I believe is lower than it deserves
- If I know an author and I like what they bring to the platform, I will upvote their posts
- If someone is new and starting out, I try and find and upvote their posts. #upvoteplankton has been a good way for plankton to get attention from me by using that tag
- If someone has selfvoted really early or used bots, I figure they don't need my upvote
Will be interesting to read what approaches others take
What happened to your rep?
IIRC the Haejin flagging wars happened to him.
I also don't vote up posts with too much self-voting. I've stopped self-voting again for now. I'll support those who need it and are doing good work. I know @fulltimegeek also does a good amount of flagging where it is justified.