Yeah I tend to give more benefit of the doubt to people. I think some people are just using Hive as a platform to document their daily activities, like a journal or something. Some of them (not all of course) are not doing it to get "cheap votes". Then there are those who are building their account to grow their network aggressively. And most of us are in between. I think there's room for all of us to exist.
Thanks for checking on the 3Speak. It's not something that bothers me a great deal, just a small inconvenience. :)