I am totally guilty of doing this in the introduce yourself section - but I (usually)upvote the post - do you guys hate me for that? Please - Let me explain:
I feel like it's a lot of work nowadays on the introduceyourself section as, many people are creating fake identities or stealing others identities.
This guy claims he is an Australian living in Thailand with like a masters in Law or something, but there was such bad grammar and punctuation, it raised many red flags for me...
So I asked him to put up a username and date next to his selfie, and of course no reply..
But meanwhile all these other people, mostly newbies, are commenting great post, welcome, glad to have you!
For example: https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@sabeboo83/your-bestfriend-is-now-on-steemit-i-am-a-cheerful-heart-of-cryptocurrency-as-well
So to me this is an obvious identity steal, and maybe with more sinister intentions as he is telling people he will give them legal and crypto advice, which may be setups for various types of scams...
So, at the end of the day, when I have steemed all I can steem, and voted on the blogs and comments I care about - I usually self upvote on my comments at 100% until my voting power is depleted to around 75%. I usually self upvote my comments in the introduce yourself section as a way of patting myself on the back for my efforts to keep the ruffians out of steemit... That's what I tell myself anyway.
So - do you guys hate me? Or am I giving myself some change for keeping steemit a safer place?
I really would appreciate any honest replies on this. I'll even upvote you! ;)
EDIT: Also sometimes I see this happening when a controversial poster (usually a whale) puts up a controversial topic, and there are already a hundred comments like (good post) ( i agree) (you're right) and someone actually has something relevant to say that DISAGREES with the original content/poster. So they self upvote to get their comment above the sea of {FOLLOW ME PLEASE}... but they don't want to give the whale/ OP any (more) money.... Pleze Discuzz!