people get more upvotes by not putting their own photos as a profile picture, it has totally nothing to do about reaping rewards from works, see i put my own photo as profile , a real person, nothing fake and yet i dont get much upvotes writing good posts at times not even 'views' , maybe i dont even exist! .. lolz the only thing to console myself in steemit is to upvote myself...geez.... i got that 2 cents (at least i got my right to upvote myself to get my own rewards or else it would be wasted)...happy me today... hm... maybe i should ought to learn from you guys , put something more popular a cartoon, a pop actor, singer, write more dramas, get into clans...speak more vulgar.... i dunno ...okay i am happy that you noticed me commenting ....at least i exist...