RE: I was hugged by a whale yesterday. Here's how it went.
@qberry, could we pitch in here?
@aktinyhome, we noticed the same thing with one of our posts too. There could be several reasons:
a) Your thumbnail photo looked great and the Steemian just upvoted without going into the post. And many of them did the same.
b) You're in a group where you receive an upvote (every 24/48 hours on a new post) from the main administrator and then some of the other members in the group could be lazy and put an autobot to vote the same way as the administrator. This is called 'trailing'. Leaving a trail.
c) Is linked to B, but you're not in a group and someone with influence gave a big upvote and they have a trail on them, so those people voted too. Therefore 130 upvotes with like a couple of views.
Best way to see if there is any 'trailing' is on SteemWorld (steemworld.org/@aktinyhome - in your case). In 'Account Operations', this shows the activity going on in your account in terms of comments, replies, upvotes and payouts etc. For example, you can spot one upvote that might happen at 15:49 and then suddenly 50 upvotes at the same time or a minute later. It's usually that first person is the leader and the rest are the 'trailers'.
It's strange, but sometimes the reality. Time is against us and many of us don't have time to read everything. Therefore, an upvote (which is highly appreciated), but only 2 comments! That's the sad part as we like the engagement on the platform and discussions that can come out of one post.
Hope this helps and maybe @qberry can pitch in his thoughts - sorry for diving in @qberry - hope that's fine that we did.
@travelling-two thanks for your time! I will go checkout SteemWorld.. I definitely learned something here. Thanks again. Following.
No worries! Love to help out where we can. We've been on the platform for 39 days (this info can be found on steemd.com, you can yours there). There are a lot of stats sites, which we love. To see not only your account, but the account of others too (if you want).
We learn something new everyday too about using Steemit and now we are exploring DTube, (like YouTube) DLive (a mixture of Youtube and Facebook Live) and SteepShot (like Instagram) too, so lots more to learn. :D
The verdict is in thanks to you. There was a $67 and change up vote followed by 5 or 6 'trailing'. So...@qberry I was touched by a whale too. woo hoo!
There you go! You're welcome!
Touched by a whale with love. It's amazing how sometimes less than 1% of their voting power equals to $50 or so. Crazy, but grateful! Hope you get touched by a whale in the future! Multiple times :)