It's an interesting way to look at self voting, but if one is already giving out going votes and networking, is there a need to self vote given that others will likely reciprocate?
At the moment there's still the timing issue which makes a self-vote more powerful since it comes quicker. If HF20 does away with that I plan to stop voting on my own posts. I'll still buy votes as long as it's a more efficient way of getting SP than powering up, though.
It's something I have been thinking about recently... Instead of what we see on trending, is it worth pooling resources to send what we would like to see up there?
My feeling is that optimal Trending strategy involves either ignoring it or trying to replace it with a better concept. Ignoring it is optimal strategy on every other platform, so it seems like it should be here, too.