You mean #teammalaysia community vote? I think you need to change your mentality from now on. Those are collective votes that operate under strict governed policies to avoid abusive usage. Not that they're an ass, but things has to be set and to clear spammers off. With that, actually limiting the wide range of blogger to be creative. Besides, it's a community project that "help" minnow like you and me to get kick starting, things shouldn't took for granted. If they come, we take it with gratitude. If they doesn't, we can't whine about it nor hate ourselves for being who we are, am I right?

For most important point is, we need to grow as we blog everyday. Make it as a habit to note down what's important in our life. Do you know why is there hashtags? You have used #foodphotography in your category, why don't you click on it and find fellow bloggers what they wrote about their food? Give them constructive comment, spend 10 minutes a day doing 10 quality curation work and start making friends. All you need is 1 feedback a day from these curation work, after a year you would have 365 new followers that give you an upvote. Like how I found your blog.

Smart people don't do different thing, but do things differently.

Don't need to get overly obsessed with the upvotes for now. Try to survive and gain real audience is the ultimate goal. Enjoy blogging and do drop by my blog and leave me a comment if you think you need help from me.

Cheers