You are well within your right to self vote, I have not asked you to stop. You are free to do so, the blockchain is all about freedom of choice and I applaud that.
But...the same freedom you enjoy to self vote (use your stake as you please) is the same freedom others also have to use their stake as they please by upvoting and downvoting.
You've chosen to call out other accounts which is your choice, but I think your choice to do so wasn't very well received and has ultimately worked counter productively. Maybe simply ceasing to self vote and choosing to upvote others (and earn that way) would have been a better option.
I have downvoted the comments you made which you self voted on as I believe that is selfish and greedy of you...which is the whole reason I began to downvote your posts...because I find your self voting greedy and selfish.
hope this is not going to get personal since I actually followed you (lol). And will you start downvoting other people that are self-voting or only the accounts that are smaller than you?
curious, so you are still going to downvote my posts even if I do not upvote them anymore?
What I do and when is my own business, however, why don't you cease upvoting your own posts and comments and find out.
I have removed all of my upvotes on my posts except for the community contest since this is going into the reward pool
I will downvote any post you create (or have created) which you self-upvote for the very same reasons I began to do that in the first place. Let me reiterate - I find it selfish and greedy.
You post well, I don't mind your posts at all and can see myself choosing to upvote them at some stage but the text in the previous paragraph still applies. It's not personal, I don't know who you are so it's certainly not personal.
This post of yours complaining about being downvoted, that you hide under the guise of a "discussion" didn't surprise me and while I disagree with posts like this if the net result is that you stop self voting then that's a good thing. Maybe it'll even gain you some upvotes from me down the track. I'm sure you've checked my wallet and have seen I'm happy to upvote posts and comments others make - it's how I earn curation rewards - and you can do the same. (So you don't have to self vote.
okay, so just to clarify: I have a community contest called "love the clouds" and it's been running for several years paying out over 4000 Hive at least. I upvote this post so I can grow the reward pool that gets distributed back to the community. I don't see how this is a bad thing. But prove me wrong.
Also that comment was like a 5 cent upvote :) But seems to me that this is a black/white issue for you. If you take this so seriously, I'd really like to see you follow through on this and let others know as well.
Btw, I find it ironc that emrebeyler is upvoting this comment. He also likes to upvote his posts. Anyway, have a nice day.