While I don't "Earn" hard ROI on voting comments and trying to keep the vote above dust. I do gain commenters and spread some good will and success to others. In addition by keeping my blog a great place to comment and have a discussion, I also find others that are active and engaging on the site.
Personally, I feel it is still worth upvoting comments and engagement and I do believe it adds value to my account in something I would call "Soft ROI".
It's not tangible but I think my blog does better as a direct result.
Just offering another point of view.
Yeah it's a lot different for you since your upvotes can still count and not go to zero. For most people their solo upvotes don't count at all. The autovoter strategy isn't bad and does give a better ROI. I'll probably just add some people to my autovoter instead of upvoting their comments.
I think most of the people I have talked to who now understand how things work will probably stop upvoting comments.
I would have upvoted your comment at 100% but it would have basically just been a wasted vote since it wouldn't count.
It will be interesting to see what Steemit is like in another month. It has already changed a lot for me.
Is there anything besides Palnet I really need to be using?