I don't understand this, you paid for your steem power right?
The way you use it should be up to you, it's your money. A lot of people upvote themselves but it's ignored because their steem power is low. Self upvote is self upvote.
Lots of people in this comment section self upvote, regardless of how many percentage.
Use your money your own way.
Bots might be the problem, not self upvote
I have seen people upvote their own comments for like 0.60$ all the time and no one seems to care. I upvote mine sometimes too to get to the top of spammers even if my vote is like half of 0.01$
True,
This kind of reaction is only directed to owners of huge voting power
Bernie hates it when lots of other people vote for content he doesn't like.