I'm just going to keep on keeping on. There remains a fixed amount of STEEM created by the block producers each day, all of that STEEM has to go somewhere, so I believe that my depleted VP will be worth more with no one voting, than my full VP will be worth when everyone is voting again.

I expect some really odd looking payouts to be happening middle of next week because of all of this. I could be entirely wrong, but next week could be a lot of fun for those of us who push through, keep posting and voting and ignoring what the payout says for now.

We'll see how that game plan works out for me, but it is the only thing I can think to do to keep a positive outlook on the next three days.