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No, you have understood correctly. There are magic things that happen here.

Read the post and top comments again

Its not okay to upvote your content if its shitty, who decides whether your content is shitty is the unknown here. it is okay to upvote your content complaining about others upvoting shitty content lol.

i actually made a response to this post and used bid bots to upvote a post i wrote about bid bots being a problem lol

https://steemit.com/steemit/@rulesforrebels/don-t-hate-the-player-hate-the-game-or-addressing-why-steemit-sucks-or-response-to-berniesanders