I have to agree. I've never understood it. But then, I'm not a particularly greedy person and I believe in quality over quantity. I've also been told I have way to many scruples for someone in the retail industry. LOL I will continue to upvote what interests me and what I feel might offer value to the community. I hope that my blog posts can do that for others. That's the way it should be.
Keep up the great post!♥
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i did upvote myself the first 3 days but now i cleaned everyvote so im happy of not being part of the list
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that's good to hear.
Exactly. We should upvote quality content what we like for multiple people and enjoy ourselves.
Doesn't this go back to the argument the community should self regulate - Part of this regulation is through appropriate upvoting as well as having the right incentive mechanisms in place to motive more appropriate voting?
If people are incentivsed to upvote their own content - they will.
Her post is a call for regulation I think. There are checks and balances, everyone just has to do their part. Good point, though
Maybe not rules, but a social consequence to such actions. It's a way more powerful thing: ignoring.
It is also called starving the beast...
I guess it's pretty hard for every newbie to resist the temptation of self-voting since there's "free money" at stake, albeit it's only just 0.01. Greed like any other human emotion is something innate and natural. Steemit will eventually turn into a giant prisoner's dilemma where the people who abuse the system will gain at the expense of those who follow the "rules." (If there are rules to begin with)
Unless there's a way to penalize abusers through a downvote button, Steemit will become a free-for-all where everyone tries to grab all the upvotes. Then again, in the whitepaper, Steemit is a proponent for a no censorship social media. I wonder if there will be true value creation on Steemit...