The voting reward is not meant to be game changing, it is just so that players actually want to vote once in a while.

Rewarding players with valuables would not help the economy...
Voting is just a way for players to help the servers out, I personally don't want anything in exchange it's just to help the server once again

Yes a voting reward is not supposed to unbalanced or interfere with the game, that's not it's purpose.

I would sincerely hope that people would vote not just for the obvious reward but the fact it keeps the server alive and without it we would get very few new players.

Also voting full time provides enough XP levels for all your daily needs imo.
Also I hate getting meat myself sooo

Don't forget that voting at least once per day for 25 days in a row will earn you a crafty crate, so there's that...

well the 25 day voting crate is a loot crate but not the same as the Crafty Crates if I'm not mistaken. Regardless, remember to vote everyday. I have had extra give-aways for voting and other staff have talked about it. There is always a good reason to Vote.

Surprised no one mentioned that you can get an elytra for 100 (?) credits.

i have my humfrydog account, my alt account and sometin=mes i use my daughter stephycakes11 to get around to multiple locations. So basicly i got 3 homes, and 3warp 1 and 3 warp 2s available to me. With that said I still run out of vote credits cause we are all linked to the same ip. so when possible i buy credits

I and some others do occasional rewards for those who help voting for the server

@CraftyMyner voting should not be for getting stuff but rather to help the server.

^ this though is 100% true

You already get so much for voting. Credits can be used for warps and getting Elytra, Magic Meat is always there when you are in a tight situation and need food and best of all you help the server.

I don't think a player getting good gear or a special item as a reward is warranted because as others have said, it would only harm the economy and take away from the "Vanilla"ness of the server.

Personally, I have my doubts on the server's economy from my interactions with players and simply reading the chat but if anything messing with the voting rewards isn't needed tbh; magic meat is enough and despite the presence of elytra ( though unlikely since most of the server use credits for warps ) but the presence of magic meat is highly underrated tbh many times the help of magic meat has gotten me out of dire situations and potential deaths from the nether or shulkers. ( In a nutshell, I agree with what @Scrappy_Dont is saying. )

CM is arguably one of the most vanilly-vanilla server from my experince and only upgrading the reward benefit of the voting system simply for the purpose of retaining players seems silly to me as changing the vote rewards is arguably one of the quickest ways to further upset the economy.

Also, it's vanila! Work for it yourself!

They already get the meat to support them when they join and vote. Iron armour as well, what else can we give them ? Diamond armour ?

Items given to newer players would be mostly worthless to older ones anyway which wouldn't encourage voting among them which is the goal since it shocks me how many people play this server for hours every day and don't vote.

Moved to suggestions