It is a free market and you should be fine to do what you please in my opinion. Everything is strategy and moving your influence. If it's best to upvote your own posts then I think you should, if your goal is to grow as much as possible? It does not make a difference in my opinion because we all want to be successful. If you like to share and reward others, then that's your prerogative.
Upvoting your own posts earlier on may be a good strategy as you are not getting that much engagement and posts look horrible with no votes on them. Overall upvoting others and spreading your influence will build your posts and account up more, I believe.
As for this comment I will upvote it, to get it closer to the top for visibility.
Not speaking to you about this Jerry, just in general as a point of view. lol.
Love you!
Matthew thank you very much for encouraging us to remember it is a free market and we are free to use our votes however we want! It is VERY tempting to upvote early on a post because the more a post earns within the first few minutes, the higher it is likely to go in the "hot" tab and potentially the "trending" tab later.
Yes absolutely excellent added point.
Good points bitdollar. I agree!