Are you new? Can you help me with an Experiment

I am new here and I am trying my best to understand the platform and how it works in terms of voting and reach and rewards and earnings.

There are so many posts on how to do this and how to do that, but then some say different things.

So from one newbie to another ( or in steemit talk from one minnow to another) I have an experiment. I am hoping to get 100 votes on this post, all from other new people here. No comments. Just votes. I will then record the results and share them.

What I am hoping to see is that minnows can support minnows with out the need for whales (if you are so new that you don't know what a whale is, well its a big player in steemit and they votes are worth more)

I will then run a further experiment, looking to get comments from minnows only. With this I want to track the increase of votes with comments
and the third experiment is with comments and and resteems. I will track the additional reach with the new metrics

these experiments will helps all of us newbies as I will report and recommend on the findings

So what have you got to loose, Vote for this post and help my experiment and follow me at @paulag for the results and more experiments.....and please no comments on this post!