I am pleased i stumbled upon your post.
I just joined steemit a week ago, while trying to understand how steemit works i saw a lot of popular people on steemit upvoting themselves and kinda bragging about it. i even upvoted a few of my posts. but i felt there is something wrong and if that is the way steemit works it could threaten it's existence.
thanks to you and people here, i realized it's a hot issue and that there are people who truly care about steemit and want to see it flourish, which in turn will help new people and steemians have hope that steemit will become a big thing and a welcoming place for new people.