RE: UPVOTE YOUR OWN CONTENT!!!

[whatsup]

When you upvote your own content:

You give yourself an incentive to post and hold.
You pull money away from the voting bots and others.
You build your account so it can do more to support others.
And you contribute to the economy.

If everyone only votes for themselves. There is no reason to have a site, just set the blockchain to distribute the rewards to current stakeholders.

It is a balance... I'm fine with everyone doing what they want with their stake, but I also see that coin staking is not helping build the site.

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[schattenjaeger]

On a purely personal level, I'm of the idealistic mind that would hope to see a Steemit what would simply be a scenario where:

• People follow people that they like;
• People upvote content that tickles them in whatever way they find pleasing

However.

I agree with the points you stated. I'm realistic enough to see that the above scenario I painted is a pretty far cry. There are basically two realistic scenarios here right now:

• People self-vote to reward themselves for holding instead of dumping (mind you: one of the intended purposes of the damn coin);
• People don't self-vote, but will instead trade votes with their buddies, resulting in the same resource allocation outcome as above, but only in a roundabout way

There's really no need to condemn self-voting as the below scenario takes place anyway.

Also, are we supposed to just get rid of all of the reasons to hold the coin? If anything, there need to be more incentives to power up and stay powered up. The resource credits are a good start, but we need more.

Being able to reward yourself is just a reward by the chain for holding onto your coins. I don't see the problem.

I, however, do find it annoying when certain people - let's call them fulltimegeeks - do the same thing as everyone else on the platform - that being upvoting and downvoting - and act like they're some big heroes of the blockchain.

I downvote, too. Where's my cape?

[whatsup]

I want a cape also. Dang it.

[anthonyadavisii]

We are all fulltimegeeks on this blessed day.

_{Ken M anyone?}

[schattenjaeger]

I don't understand that reference.

[anthonyadavisii]

You're supposed to say.

Speak for yourself.

To which I would reply:

I am all fulltimegeek on this blessed day.

Reference

_{It's dumb, really. Don't think about it too hard. Check out the sub, tho. It's funny AF}

[ocrdu]

You pull money away from the voting bots and others.

But you said ...

8-)

[whatsup]

I still think the concept of voting bots was fine. I just hoped we would have some other attractions to go along with them. :) We should figure out how to rebrand them as gambling devices and we would moon!

[schattenjaeger]

I liked @randowhale. It was actually fun. Like, the use of the bot itself was fun. You didn't know what you were going to get, so the fun gamble was worth the few SBDs. The vote itself was secondary.

[whatsup]

Yeah... everything is so stale now.

[schattenjaeger]

I'd pay money to be able to use Yobby emotes on Steemit, for instance.

Or ConcernFroge:

[enforcer48]

Concerned Frog is one of my favorites when I'm on Discord.

[anthonyadavisii]

Can confirm. Lmao