Wow. I found myself on there too :/
I know. You upvoted that comment spam with 100% (via minnowbooster vote-selling), and now you don't have enough voting power and can only upvote @diabolika's post with 25%. I hope you don't expect anyone to upvote your posts - but at least you can use the SBD's you earned by selling your votes to buy votes on your posts.
All I want to do is let my surplus voting power work while I am working and unable to actively participate on the platform.
As mentioned above, an alternative is to follow curation trails of good projects like @curie, were voting power contributes to rewarding quality content, the kind of content which gives this platform its value. Unfortunately, most users are way too greedy.
... and increase my following
I doubt you increase your following by vote buying and trash voting, I suspect some users might be appalled by it.
I don't think that they are all bad...
They are mostly interested in profit and unable and/or unwilling to mitigate abuse. Don't listen to what they are saying, look at what they are actually doing.
Your other comment received a downvote in cancel out the upvotes obtained via minnowbooster (this kind of vote-buying on comments looks like cheating, doesn't it?).
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