When you vote, you lose voting strength which takes time to rebuild. You'd be much better off upvoting new content other people haven't discovered yet and being rewarded as a curator instead of your own comments. That said, when you are posting the original, you should go ahead and leave the check box checked to vote for it. Sometimes I'll upvote my own comment just to change it's order in the list.
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thanks for this explanation, quite enlightening to someone still figuring things out!