I don't like to delegate, I think that the benefits are not in balance with the reward, that is, if I delegate my voting power I will not be able to help other people, therefore I will not read to share my opinion in different posts that could teach me, contribute something useful, another issue is that we become lazy, we receive rewards, so the work is less and even bad, conclusion motivates us but economically, nothing else matters, something regrettable since it is not the objective of the panel.
In relation to the help of a whale, it is something that motivates any user, it is visualized by a user with a lot of voting power, this would be great for any of us, it motivates more than receiving and receiving rewards without effort, the whale helps and motivates to work better and with quality
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Yes, it is true in your words and I agree the more manual curation will be done with using our own Steem Power the more motivation and interest people will have often we just need a bit of chat exchanging ideas and just saying Hello while visiting the blogs of others. That makes us feel that people reading the post and it is not like written and forgotten.
The more users with high SP we will have the better for the whole Steemit community, but there will be always people who do not want to grow slowly and naturally but would like to get their profit quicker and that is another way of it Upvotebots for delegation, it is very tempting when someone has so much SP and also when someone can see how much they ear on daily basis. I believe that is simply very human feature and we are all not exclusion.