Since the last Hardfork vote power is drained much faster and people seem to be voting less. I've noticed a big drop in the upvotes I receive and this limit on daily votes must be hitting those without the vote slider much harder as they can't lower their vote power.
As a result of not getting so many votes I've noticed that I'm getting comments by people who are not upvoting my post. As I've always given an upvote to all comments (which gives a few cents to the person making the comment) I'm wondering about what is going on.

Is this a case of steemians having used all their daily votes or people using the comments to gain without voting for the posts?

This second option seems to me to be a scam and after hearing from other people this seems to be their opinion too. As a result I'm feeling less inclined to vote on comments which takes the thank you for your comment upvote away from genuine steemians. 
So I'm now curious to see if anyone else has noticed this happening so feel free to leave your opinions.

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