As I said I personally am a lot less against self-votes as others, as @gtg once said, if you don't value your own post, why post it to begin with? It's more about doing it excessively and if the intention is always to do it for the returns with as little effort as possible behind the actual content. I'd have nothing against most users self-voting as most don't post more than once or twice per day and most of them don't shitpost/low effort but I appreciate that many of them don't as it's nice to have extra voting power to trail or delegate to a project that supports newcomers/underrewarded users if you're not going to curate yourself.
Either way, that post seems interesting, the number seem quite high indeed. I'd be interested in knowing more info about those accounts and what the self-votes do (for instance I some times "self-vote" @poshtoken and @redditposh but it's not like the rewards are my own gain). Would also be interesting to know what the rshares equal to these days in terms of hp. Could you or @mein-senf-dazu send me a dm on discord? No need to include mustard!
Vote selling should be quite banned, I know there's some projects that do this in a "hidden" way but definitely something I'd reward if more people bothered to look into who's doing it excessively. For instance sending them some hive-engine token (usually their own they've created) in exchange for a hive upvote or automatically voting up users just cause they delegate to them, etc. There's many projects out there in the gray-area and some profiting quite a lot from this activity at the cost of unfairness towards users not participating.
True. I always upvote own posts. It used to be a default setting but was sub-optimal due to reverse auction we had (so upvoting your own post at the very time of voting made you lose your curation rewards due to anti-bot penalty, so it was made optional so user could chose when to vote)
More over, self voting top level posts by default on chain level could have a positive effect because those who post low effort posts would also automatically "bid" on it risking down votes (unless declined rewards).
Where you active before the payouts went live? When part of the post rewards would automatically go to comments?
bit random but wasn't sure how early you were and some discussions earlier in another comment on this post made me wonder
either way, we have a similar service as that now with @commentrewarder ^^
Yeah, but you post maybe once a month! Lol!
Does your outgoing votes looks like this? No it doesn’t!
8 100% self vote a week!