I feel you. And yes I think it is the "wrong strategy" in the sense that I believe you would earn more SP by adding value to communities that in turn wants to reward you for your presence here.

At least I experienced when I came on that spending my quite irrelevant low SP (at the time) on others whilst giving it my best with my own content resulted in me getting votes that far outweighed what I could have gotten from self-voting 100%.

Only trying to give you my 50 cents here while answering the person above why some of your posts got flagged in the first place.