Buying a coin, like HIVE is functionally indistinguishable from purchasing stock in a corporation.
If I can buy enough stock that I can self-boost my content in order to drive eyeballs, that's an INVESTMENT THAT HELPS EVERYONE WHO ALSO OWNS SHARES.
Imagine if major corporations like mcdonalds or coca-cola got into HIVE and wanted to boost their articles to the top of the trending page every day.
HIVE WOULD GO THROUGH THE ROOF.
And then other corporations would jump in and buy up tons of HIVE
so they could boost their own content !!!!!
Paying for banner ads only benefits the web-host, not us.
SELF-VOTING INCREASES REAL VALUE FOR ALL STAKE-HOLDERS.
Well Hive would change if that happened. For now I see self-votes as a simple money grab. In most cases it's not about getting on trending as that would take the sort of investment most can't afford.
As always people get to decide how much a post earns and you can get judged by what you do. Most of the people I support could only add a few cents to their posts. I choose not to self-vote as the extra money is not worth it to me.
I've never heard a coherent moral theory of why self-voting is teh evilz.
Not necessarily 'evil', but maybe not always a good thing. When I see it then my voting is influenced. I realise people can be sneaky about it via proxy accounts. I know of an account that upvotes every post and comment they put out.
Yeah, but even the hivewatcher police upvote their own stuff.
I've even pointed it out to them and they say, well, it's ok as long as you don't abuse it.
I have no idea.
If you own the stake, you should be able to self-vote.
The "reward pool" doesn't know and doesn't care who you vote for.
It literally makes no difference.
You can do what you want and so can others who will judge you. People make up their own minds about stuff. They won't necessarily agree, as we obviously don't, and that's okay.
Is it perhaps like when someone spends money in their own restaurant ?
Is that some sort of rude gesture and an insult to all the other restaurants ?
These analogies do not really work IMHO. Hive is not like 'real life'. There are new norms.
I don't think coca-cola is going to be interested in participating unless they can guarantee their placement with the smallest possible investment.
LBRY Odysee.com ranks vids based on staked tokens.
You can stake to your channel and or stake to one or more individual vids.
You can also stake to someone else's channel or to someone else's vids.
This makes staking like an upvote that you can take back later if you wish.
The same goes for text posts and file posts (not just vids).
LBRY Odysee.com also has an option for you to post "pay per view" content.