Hey @phoneinf,

As @acidyo said in his response, we often do give out 100% upvotes to users of our platform. Recently we’ve had success in on-boarding influencers who have a high count of concurrent viewers, if we get the chance to showcase DLive and the Steem blockchain by 100% upvoting them in front of 1000’s of people, we do. If we want to talk about why this livestream was “magical”, it’s been a little over 8 months since the users of DLive have started live streaming and uploading videos. Not once has a 1000STEEM donation been made, this marks a huge milestone for DLive, if we’re talking about consumption. We saw this donation and we wanted to make this milestone a little more special for @mariandreapf with a higher upvote.

For your comment about our responsibility for a standard in “throwing away Steem”, we also have that. In 2018 we have delivered 36426 upvotes to 3922 unique users. We are doing our best to curate original content and create a rewarding and engaging community. In the end there will always be someone unhappy about upvotes, it’s impossible to please everyone but I don't mind answering your questions, even if they are brought forward in the incorrect manner.