Hey, @sparkesy43.

It's tough to give what you would like on a post or a comment, and it's tough to try to spread it around, so most of us have to be a little choosey with what we upvote and how much.

If anyone's ever commented for commenting sake on my posts it's been few and far between and long ago, since we're more or less in an engagement drought right now. :)

It's true, though, STEEM isn't the only thing going, and there is value in getting other tokens even if it's just to eventually convert them into STEEM. If staking occurs and some of those tokens eventually take off, all the better.

Two years ago when I joined, the going preference for voting, especially for newcomers, was to use 100% upvotes on posts, and forget the rest. I couldn't do it, but I see so many of these micro-particle upvotes you mentioned and I see a certain wisdom in the 100% upvoting. It seems, however, everyone, high or low SP has decided that its better to upvote as much as possible, even with nothing, rather than upvote only a few with maybe something.

So, there's plenty of micro-particle upvotes to go around. :)