Cool, thanks for the explanation.

Don't you feel there's a little bit of a problem with people not wanting to upvote comments and posts out of some kind of selfishness or fear of 'using up' their voting power too much? I still have to wrap my head around it all, but I thought there'd be in general just a lot more voting happening in comments sections. People are thus hesitant to upvote comments and overall discussions suffer as a result. On Reddit for example there's no cost to simply upvote to say "this is a good comment", but here people don't seem to want to do so - I'm not entirely sure why.

Maybe people incorrectly think there's actually a direct cost to them whenever they upvote on Steemit - what do you think? Because, from what I understand, people should be upvoting whatever they think is worth getting more attention/getting their virtual thumbs up, but people don't because there is a strange sense of scarcity attached to something as simple as an upvote.

See, there's two elements to the upvote: the number of votes, and the earnings of votes, and we're getting a little hung up on the latter for some reason.