votes are a means to give tips to another via each created posts. No one is entitled to receive up votes.
I agree entirely. Upvotes are given freely to encourage writers.
This is the main reason that I want to fund my upvotes with BLURT from my curation rewards and not BLURT from my posts.
I don't want to depend on something freely given so that I can upvote.
I earn my curation rewards by curation efforts as such they are under my control.
A SIDE NOTE: A few months ago I got fewer upvotes for a post than I was anticipating. I dropped a garbage post just to get some BLURT and ended up waiting several days without voting because I lacked free BLURT.
So, my current strategy is to power up all of my author rewards and to pay for my actions by powering down curation rewards. I think that this is the best approach to the fees.
I am pulling the same stunt on SteemIt and HIVE. I have received nasty comments for having power downs on those platforms.
Personally I just think 25/75 reward split is fine enough.
Your curation rewards will not all be in liquid but depending on whether how the author of a post has the rewards set.
For example, if they set it to powerup all them your curation will go entirely to BP (blurt power).
Post daily and comment daily on other people's content, You should theoretically get enough votes to cover it all.
Fees are cheap. Just be active and all should be good. And I'll restrain from up voting untill you can get enough BP.