I have never been a fan of greed or selfishness, and I don't recommend self-voting as an approach to yield great returns either, even though it's obviously a superb way to maximize your profits quickly.
However, I am a huge fan of paying-it-forward, which is why many of my previous projects and initiatives have been working solely from a "charity" point of view, where I've actually lost tokens personally to spread them across the community users instead. I didn't self-vote at all for a very long time, but I have started to self-vote occasionally since I joined LeoFinance.
When I personally think that my contributions deserves a bit more rewards compared to what I've been rewarded, I simply use my ~0.25 LEO worth of votes on myself. I figured that my contributions are worth that much, at least. That being said, I would never self-vote instead of spreading the wealth on others, as I am a true believer in having a strong and healthy community. That is how we will have a sturdy foundation to build upon in the future.
My point is that self-voting is totally fine and I am okay with that, but I want people to focus more on others, because that is how we will eventually flourish. 1-2 self-votes out of 10 is totally fine. 7-8 self-votes out of 10 is definitely not an approach I would ever endorse, and I usually ignore such users.
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