Yes. I do want to make this list.
Let's just pretend I have the power to upvote my own comment by $100 or more.
Let's pretend a minnow comes along and upvotes my comment first.
If I throw more money at the comment via an all evil self-upvote, the minnow gets a better curator payout ... much better. Or maybe it's a school of minnows. All the same, the minnows get more curation pay out.
Yes, I could upvote a comment or a post by the minnow instead. And I may just do that, too. But, there are times when I just really want to say "thank you for your upvote on my specific thought" by increasing the minnow's curation payout.
So. basically, I just used a bunch of words to explain what happens when a self-upvote is used to upvote an upvote by a minnow. See?
Equally important, by the time I reach the point of being able to reward myself $100 per upvote, I will have paid bloody well for the privilege to do whatever I want with my share of the voting pool.
IF self-voting from my allotted portion of the voting pool is over-draining the voting pool, then either the "developers &/or powers that be" are failing to fill the pool full enough or someone is failing to divide the portions correctly.
Therefore, because this list is not really a fix to the cause of the problem, this whole conversation and unwarranted policing by the list, is beating the wrong end of the donkey and it's not going to make the parade move down the road more quickly. There's just going to be a lot of bumps on the donkey's head and some are surely going to get kicked by the donkey. So. Really. A carrot on a string might work much better.
And, I repeat myself. I can't make it onto this list fast enough.
Thank you for your interest in clarification. I hope this helps.
What if a "minnow" voted on content that wasn't published by you and then you vote on that? Wow brilliant!
Anyway, you're right that this isn't a solution but at least it starts a discussion and increases awareness.
People can indeed do what they want with the current implementation, but self-voting is self destructive behavior so it's not smart to do it. Me and others want a protocol change to increase incentive to vote on others so it's more obvious that self-voting isn't beneficial behavior.