I am all in favour of manual voting and actually just writing a post about it. I think it is vital to target votes on a few quality posts rather than just voting up everything a given person posts. Most of my votes are manual, but I still have issues keeping my voting power up as I also like to upvote comments. BTW part of my latest policy is to upvote comments on posts that already have a large reward instead of the post.
I really like this idea @steevc.
With my newly freed voting mana, combined with a rise in HP, I am able to break that 3 cent upvote barrier to comments. But like you said, it's hard to keep the voting power up like that.
My account is still too small that I couldn't give all my commenters a 3 cent minimum upvote plus manually upvote with weight and comment on several posts a day.
This is where something like Hive-Engine tokens can fill the gap.
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