share with each other

A lot of people vote for them to be rewarded back.
There are a lot of genuine & rich contents that do not get enough upvote because they don't belong or associated to any group. 
People just vote because it's a familiar name without even going through the content.

I hope this would change some day.

Nice one @acidyo.

As steem goes up i feel that I am a bit more influential and I can encourage other people to keep doing a good job when they see the small reward of 0.01 stu (that's my vote).

When the time comes in which a large part of the users could exchange their upvotes for things it would be very innovative and revolutionary but at the same time the community should set certain agreed rules to avoid benefiting spammers or people who do illegal things.

hy @acidyo
maybe I will do if my strong vote strength, then I will help my friend who wants to buy a car lamborgini by 100% vote vote hahahhaa lol :D :D

That would be awesome to pay for stuff with an upvote. Haha. I'd upvote myself too much food.

I'm just growing my SP as an virtual penis. I'm proud as it grows bigger and bigger, but I still don't know what I'm going to do with it.

I might just delegate quite much of it to others. Then just enjoy seeing my account is worth a lot of money and still not stressing about using large upvotes.

Somehow I don't know what can be done as someone goes up and increases reputation. I think what most people do is delegate their SP or sell their upvotes. Unless there are other ways to grow your earnings as your reputation goes up on here I'd be happy to know about it.

I guess am only looking forward to sell my upvotes when I get higher voting power? Well aside from upvoting posts I like as well and upvoting posts of those who join my contest when I put one up I think that's the only thing that can be done with it?

I think buying things with upvotes are only good for those with big upvotes but that'd be cool too if I could do that in the future. :D

I think it would be cool to be able to talk the family out to eat with an upvote or Steem and /or SBD. There are many possibilities just do not see them happening right now but maybe in the fututre.

i want buy, a glass of orange juice lol

I'm not really hoping to do anything with my voting power besides upvoting friends and content I want to support. What I'm interested is using my voting power to upvote quality comments so the discourse and questions are encouraged. Too much good content goes without any community interaction.  Like one dude said after he got curie upvote... the upvote is nice but it feels empty because even with that upvote no quality community interaction was had. 
And sometimes I feel the same. I extremely appreciate all the upvotes I get and I am looking forward to times where we as a community give not only our upvotes but also our precious time to interact with the posts.

My guess is that since the user base is not that large yet and the community update is not here yet, the chance that the specific posts aligns with a random readers interests are kinda low. Really hoping the communities update changes this.

There really are huge possibilities but there needs to be someone with the vision and someone to create it. Normally those two things do not fall under the same person which is why I really like utopia and projects like it.

With that said I really don't get this SMT thing yet it seems to be dead in the water from what I can tell? or someone just spilled the beans way way to early. Is it live? Is anyone using it from what I can tell no one really is but for sure curious where to find out more information.

I am very happy with @acidyo

I am very happy with @acidyo

I'm sure you're the genius of my @acidyo @bobmarli your big fan, I love the way you do things, and it's a benefit for the crowd.
You're so unique. Continue on @acidyo. Successful greetings from @bobmarli.

You really helped us @acidyo thanks

I am all about Short Stories, unique from every steemian that does them. 

**I into supporting short stories**

I just upvote content that I genuinly enjoy and I can see effort went into posting and wasnt slapped together in 5 minutes or copy/pasted. I dont have much SP but as it rises I will continue with this as this is how Steem was suppose to be - manual curation. The bots are taking over!

I will do all I can to help new minnows and encoruage them to write good content and engage with the community

I want to create communities. Regardless of whether it's SBD or SP, it's money except for the fact that you can use SP for bandwidth, SMTs and voting power. And right now the one that I'm most interested in is having at least a 0.4 vote. One 0.4 vote a day would pay any Venezuelan the ability to live comfortably in Venezuela. That means rent, food, etc.

I'm very eager to have that vote soon! As soon as possible, because that would help me improve people's lives, and start creating communities around the idea of giving Venezuelans minimum living standards. There is so much misery and people living below these standards that I'm honestly saddened. If Steemit were to give me this possibility, well, I would be super super super thankful. :)

It would be like delivering miracles with an upvote button 😂❤️

I demand that the day comes where I can use my vote to get a bottle of whiskey. 

Either that, or I'd be down for using my vote to feed my dumb ass hobbies. I'd be fine with either, but preferably it would be better to be drunk, opening up Pokemon cards and playing vidja games.

Interesting ideas there @acidyo; hadn't quite gotten as far as trading voting for anything...

I'm a big proponent of the idea that creating an "internal marketplace" that runs on Steem/SBD is a sound way to truly establish Steem as a major factor in the crypto market. Differentiation matters, and if the token is tied to an actual economy, it gives Steem "a reason for being" that places it ahead of most other coins. 

THAT SAID, it just occurred to me that I have already been engaging in "shades" of what you're describing here. 

I'm a supporter of the fledgling @steembay initiative, which is basically a marketplace bot/utility that allow good/services to be sold on Steemit in an eBay-like auction format. Which I think is great-- I wish those guys had more widespread support.

But the point here is that I put things for sale, and "free shipping" is ultimately the result of upvotes on the sales listing. Because I end up with some unspecified amount of SBDs at the end of the listing, I can AFFORD to pop some item in a box and send it to France for... *free to the buyer!*

Now you might be thinking *"And therefore.... comma.... so what?"*

Competitive advantage. Not for ME, but for Steemit. Consider this, not many places can offer free shipping on stuff, especially to overseas destinations. Sellers can't AFFORD that-- it costs $20 to ship a small packet to Finland from the USA. So they have to charge for shipping, normally.

Just pointing to that as another incentive for building a Steem economy. 

As for my own votes? My thing is mostly art... I'm not really looking to "get" anything, but I like the idea of my votes supporting artists in a manner similar to Patreon. But that's a whole separate discussion.

I would like to have more than 50000 SP to support good projects i can see here and try to help some steemians that live in some poor countries and find steemit as a good way to be entrepreneur and support their families. Regards

great post,,,,,,,,,,

That would be pretty insane to purchase products with upvotes.
Whatever i'm buying needs to be cheap though, or they need four posts I can vote on for a can of soda. :)

Using votes to pay for goods and services would be a very nice initiative.. Although it will be difficult for most service providers to accept due to the fact that steem can decide to fall and the vote  value reduces drastically.. It's a two way thing tho

It looks like you have a powerful imagination. Buying a hamburger with vote is a very imaginative idea ;)

It would be amazing one day if all you had to do was upvoter a post if your vote was worth enough and a game developer sent you a steam key via encrypted memo or whatever that works to the game. Could be a very interesting way to get digital goods. Which I think would be one of the easier type of good to deal with first. If someone removed the vote they could just reject the key or ban that key’s account.

I don't have much voting power for now but there's something I really have in mind to do.

I want to curate and upvote all new members who registers and create their first post on steemit. 
I've come to observe that this is one of the best way to motivate a newbie on steemit. 

A newbie reads, **blog and earn on steemit** and he'll first set up to try it out before even understanding how the platform works. So I think if they see this at first (getting their first content upvoted),  they'll want to hang around and at that point learn more about the platform.

I see this bringing in a lot of plenty people with good blogging skills and sustaining people who'll refine their skills too on the platform. 

I have the plan to do this and i know I'll do it. 

#### With time we can achieve anything if we put our mind to it

SMT will be a serious game changer for steem and steemit, I would really like to be able to help people become more healthy with my vote. Sort of a pounds for votes