In a way you are doing nothing to upgrade him sure. There are two aspects. Yes guys comment and things on the board but if they don't touch their player you can't really expect voting to favour them for "being active/putting in effort".
In my mind if a player isn't actively updating his player, he really is inactive in the eyes of voting. May not be regarding contracts and the board, but if a guy is not doing anything to his player he really isn't putting in an effort to him.
No we just think Seattle is trading with...Seattle. Which then I'm not sure which side won the trade because there is no three paragraph explanation from Denise.