For me, the system of self-upvoting seems to be a bit broken. Maybe I am jealous because I just started and cannot do it myself, but I strongly believe that self-upvoting should be somehow regulated, so it would not be overused.
There are many ways to do it :
- you can prohibit self-upvoting totally;
- self upvoting can give you a smaller %. Let's say 10-15 %
- self upvoting maybe be limited to the particular amount of times etc.
Maybe I am wrong, just thinking out loud.
I think it is a debate: EQUALITY vs EQUITY
So anyone is going to upvote me and in order to growth I have to use the upvote power (as little as I have) fist for my self than for the others. The problem in my opinion is not the fact how much self upvoting gave to you. For me is better if the self upvoting is linked with reputation. When you have a low reputation no one knows you and you need your upvoting for yourself but when you go bigger in reputation and you learn posting or curation you don't need anymore self upvoting. For exmaple if your reputation is under 50 than your self upvoting gave you 100% of upvoting value, if your reputation is from 50 - 70 your self upvoting gave you anly 50% of the upvoting value and if your reputation is highter than 70 your self upvoting power gave you no values but you still me have the self upvoting in order to place your post or comment in a higher level.
Maybe I wrong but I think that the uptoting system should have more equity Not all of us are able to invest the amount invested by @exyle and further not all of us are able to write good posts and to win more than 100 STEEM per post.
in this post not long ago.@jerrybanfield discussed self-votes
A controversial topic, but it is how the system works. Like @exyle said, why shouldn't those who are vested reap the rewards. Makes sense if you have a long-term mindset.
My 100% vote is worth about 0.08, but it was only 0.06 last week. If I keep publishing content and getting a few votes, it will go up. Now, if a whale votes it will go up much quicker. That's the beauty of the design.