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RE: Steemit Etiquette: Is it RUDE to Leave a Comment but NOT Upvote?
People here tend to vote more on those with higher reputation so that they may "return the favor" some day. I have seen many cases where people vote reputation rather than content. Once you write a positive comment, it means you like the content and the only way to reward the content Developer is upvoting them.
Everybody has their own strategy, of course... relatively few high reputation accounts seem to curate manually, though... and a lot of the time, a 1% upvote from someone with a lot of SP turns out to be worth less than a 100% upvote from someone with a lot less.
Which then leaves us to consider the "value" of someone with a high reputation upvoting you because it adds more to your own reputation.