Things have become slightly better since the Hard Fork but the immediate reactions were out of fear and scarcity. If you go through posts of @calamus056, you'll see lists of upvoters. I linked to some of the posts highlighting the issues. Comments section of these posts will reveal quite a lot to you.

Thanks for your pledge. I am with you in upvoting others and resteeming posts. I have been supporting people in my active hours. What I particulary do is to upvote 100 % on good comments as well, especially those on my posts. Yours is one of those comments.