I agree that as there is no restriction on the blockchain level, it is an individual's wish to either vote or not vote. If it was supposed to be a hard rule, self vote should be blocked on blockchain level. But it isn't.
But anyways I stopped voting myself long back and I think this is a good topic for me to share my experience too.
By the way buildawhale posts are not a big deal because at least it goes to burning. You should check some curation accounts sharing posts everyday and self voting. That's the real exploit.
Not a big deal? Check again the link I sent and how many upvotes these comments get, including massive selfupvoting of repetiive comments!
Yes it is a good thing. People who vote get the curation rewards but the rewards on those comments goes to burning. Which means it goes out of supply.
not the curation rewards!
I didn't know about that. This is quite awful considering those rewards from which some people could live for 1 day or even 1 week...
People do get the curation rewards. Only the author rewards go to burning.
I see the rewards for those comments are all burned. But I think we have a valid point and I have to put a couple of Ethereums into Hive.
Only the author rewards are burned, not the curation rewards!