Thanks for putting me on the spot here. You should have considered discussing this topic without mass tagging (another habit which is frowned upon by some users).
Unlike many whales who were fortunate enough to be on Hive since the first blocks of Steem, I invested a lot of my own money to reach the stake that I have. Self-voting is just a means to regain some of the investment. If the community thinks, this is a bad practice, I will have to look to somewhere else, or stop posting.
Moreover, I write posts that I consider as high-quality and worth the few $ upvotes (compared to the average posts here) that is anyway in no relation to the time spent. And so should everybody who spends hours on writing good posts not be shy to vote him/herself. If you don´t think that your own post deserves this upvote, why should others do?
I would not upvote myself, if I would churn out everyday posts with a pic and 3 lines of text. So I think when you evaluate this habit, you should not only check the stake of people but the quality of the posts.
PS: And yes, I (mostly) manually curate and upvote app. 5000 posts per month (you can check this here).
I agree about mass-tagging though, and you yourself don't selfvote that often compared to OP so it hasn't been seen as a problem by me.
Ahem, I literally wanted to catch the attention of the people involved - hence the tagging. Hope your downvote is not due to this and more because for previous self votes. I don't regret starting ts shit storm at all, it's good to have this conersation. Personally I am stopping self-voting due to it. So it was constructive over all.
My downvote is cause you think emre posting once every full moon and selfvoting is considered the same as you selfvoting every day.
I haven't stated that at all. I simply randomly selected users that were self voting their posts regardless of the quantity and asked the community's whether this was acceptable. That this has caused such an extreme reaction is of course interesting by itself. Also I make on average around 5 posts a week with 2 of them going into a reward pool for the LTC contest. I will also stop upvoting my (normal) posts, due to the friendly debate we all had here, but that insight is probably missed for the others that continue to do so.
Well I saw your back and forth with him both in comments and downvotes so figured you were in the wrong for comparing each other, I guess not the first thing you wanna stumble on early in the morning so may have overreacted.
"I will selfvote because I wasn't here early for easy rewards" is a dumb justification.
What you wrote was a dumb simplification of what I meant. Crypto is also business and return on investment, sorry if that´s new to you.
ROI comes from the valuation of Hive, not beating others at the same game cause you have lower morals.
thanks for clarifying