Thinking about the many faces of an upvote

This morning, drinking my coffee, I'm thinking about one of the most important thing here on steemit. Yes, even if more of us love to say that we are here because steemit is a cozy community (and it's true, believe me!), we started to blog here for the same main reason: the upvotes who can give us some money. Yes, it's true and we can't forgive it.

There are some differences on the "approach" that we can have with the upvote and it depend on the user. Someone think that it can be useful simply begging an upvote (and it doesn't work!), someone think the only way is "just" write good contents (it's not enough, you have also work on create a "healty" net of people who read your contents), someone think engaging people is the best way (yes, it's really a good way, if you also write good contents), someone think to comment contents using nice words without  upvote the content is a good "strategy" (alert, it's not a good strategy!), someone think we are all stupid and use the plagiarism to have upvotes (but we are not stupid!), etc etc

The same "objective" (earn more money), but different approaches, but the true is that behind every upvote there is a person! A person who can be very different: someone who lives in a different country, with a different culture, with a different way to live, different skills and/or different experiences, rich people or poor people, students and workers, younger or older. We can know just a little bit about their life, just what about they wrote on the contents (if they wrote it).

Maybe they are good people or maybe not, but we have just some words or some actions they do to think about they are good or bad people. So, it's more important (in my opinion) to think about our way to live this community. 

For example, I love to read (and upvote) different contents from different authors and I also love to discover new authors to follow, but if someone beg my upvote in a rude way, wrote spam comments on my contents or wrote about something that I don't like (I'm a person, so I have my ideas and my way of life and there are some ideas and behaviour that I don't like, it's human!) I don't upvote/follow him/her, just ignore them.

It's my choice. Everyone here (like in the "real" world) has a choice. My choice is "motivate" people with my upvote just if they are working honestly, using a friendly approach to other people (I ate rude behaviour off and on line) and who knows that they can have more here working than begging.

It's my choice.

 (While I'm writing this blackbird are watching me ^_^) 

Sometimes behind an upvote there is a bot, but after the shut down of the bot of streemian there are less upvotes from bot.

I've never used a bot to upvote contents, but I'm not disagree with bots because they are usefull when you value some authors and you want to give them an upvote also even if you're not active all the day on steemit. It's also useful for the groups/projects here to improve and motivate the members.

My choise not to use bots it's just because I want to have all the control (maybe I'm a maniac of control ^_^) on the powerful of my upvotes, so everyday I watch my feed, I read the contents that I'm interesting in, I upvote the content that I like in different % (so I can upvote more contents) and I can enjoy the life of this community. It's a long work, yes. It's just my own choice, it's good for me but I'm pretty sure it's not so good for everyone.

For example, my hubby @paolobeneforti use a different approach: he use bot (ehm, not in these last 2 days because the bot that he used is closed) to upvote some authors/friends who loves so much + me and my daughter (the family is the family, isn't it? ^_^) and gives upvotes also manually reading his feed and others. He use a mixed approach and it's the right approach for him.

Different people, different approach. 

It's our choice.

At the end, on steemit as in the real life, it's always a choice. ^_^

See ya soon

Silvia