Thanks for the great work you are doing fighting the people abusing the reward pool.
I am a minnow with an upvote of 0.08$ and as you said,chances are high no one might even see my post,so am forced to upvote myself.
I admit i have done this.
I am proud though that i dont upvote my comments.
Now here is the thing, almost everyone thinks everything coming out of their mouth is important. I hate to break it to you, but that is not the case. Most of us like to talk, and most of it is just that, talk.
The whales should reduce on the self voting percentage though,i now its their Steem Power so they deserve the pay.
It becomes bad when yo write more than 5 posts a day and youself vote to 500$..!!
I am a minnow and my opinion does not count though lol.