Nice post. Yes with the slight downturn in SBD/steem price votes monetarily are not what they used to be. But then again it is still monetarily speaking more than a FB like, or YT thumb, or what ever twitter uses. I think most people just appreciate the vote, money amount does not matter to much, it is the very real recognition that some liked a post or comment enough to reward it, and knowing that new users are limited in the number of times to vote, just makes that little reward all that more meaningful. The prices most likely will recover, the missed opportunities to meet and make new friends during a downturn may never come about again. Like Einstein said "It's all relative", so for all the new users reading this hang in there.