Oh no....guess its time to to check my hive.vote and make sure I'm not unintentionally doing bad stuff there too.... I don't think any of my hive.vote setup is doing vote trading. But I honestly have no idea.
I came back to HIVE earlier this year, and it was still pretty confusing to me. I never really got the hang of STEEM back in 2018/19 so coming back to HIVE was even more confusing. A lot of my curation trails and delegations and witnesses voting were setup when I had pretty much no real clue what I was doing within this ecosystem. I was just flying by the seat of my pants.
I have never self upvoted on HIVE. I have followed curation trails that have then upvoted me from time to time however. Felt weird to see my own upvote but once I figured out the me -> curation trail -> back to me pipeline... well I still don't really know how to feel about it.
Anyways, looking forward to more of your posts @acidyo about how I'm being an ass on HIVE without even knowing it lol