Hello,
I often upvote "old" articles that i read with interest in order to bookmark them, so that i can easily find back thoses sources later on, by consulting my account 's activities. No need to have a tool outside the blockchain to centralize all my bookmarks related to my Steem explorations. At this stage i did not find any better way to keep track of my readings, but if any other exists, don't hesitate to tell me.
I just wanted to give my own example of the motivation driving such vote with no value. I don't know if am the only one. And if i correctly get it, doing so is not really hurting the ecosystem.
This 7 days rules is quite disturbing sometimes because a lot of old but long-term valuable contents are loosing their visibility.
Anyway, thanks for this study clarfiying this side of the rules.
Best Wishes !
That's a nice idea, and not one I'd considered. Thanks for explaining your motivation! I suppose that you could achieve the same by commenting, although it's more work / more intrusive if you are just bookmarking the article. I can't think of another clean way to do it using the current blockchain functionality. Perhaps making a post "this is my reference list" and adding a comment with each new link when you find new articles? Again, it's more work.
You are correct that it doesn't harm the ecosystem. It does lose you one of your votes (or it reduces your voting power; whichever way you want to think about it) and you receive no curation rewards but that's not a big issue at low SP, particularly if you're voting at low percentage (by using the slider on busy for example).
I'd be interested to hear other motivations from anyone out there, to understand whether this is more a deliberate than accidental issue.
Best wishes too!