Know your personality and the personality of others
I know. Even the personality of most of the others. They are selfish and greedy. They are dooming/ruining Steemit and the Steem blockchain. Currently there is one comment under this post, and it is upvoted by its own author. The author's upvote do not even worth a single cent, yet she still upvote her own comment. Even if it would a cent, she still would not receive anything after the post payout, because the payout threshold on the Steem blockchain is $0.02, so she is literally wasting her voting power. If she would upvote some post with more than $0.02 of pending payout, then she could earn some curation rewards. Most of the people are focusing on their own posts (and comments), and they do not care about other people's posts. Even if they comment, they mostly do it to get attention to themselves.