I am not a fan of the upvoting own comments however the other day, I did do it. It was in a logo competition and I went through and upvoted all of the actual entries so they were towards the top. I just thought it would be easier for @officialfuzzy to view.
Having said that, I didn't upvote with full power. I think there are massive drains on the pools where people are upvoting their own content for hundreds each time and designating very little towards the other content on the platform.
I have not thought enough about it overall but it does seem somewhat underhanded and I wouldn't mind seeing an end to it for awhile to see how it effects the pool.
At one point they did consider making a post pool, and a comment pool and keeping them separate. That was shot down by community discussion. It would however, have created a firewall for exactly this type of situation.
The problem with the big guys doing it is that the small must also to get anything.
I haven't noticed the big guys doing it myself as I haven't seen those posts. It doesn't surprise me to hear they are. Yes, this is a big problem. The ship is taking on water.
What happens if there is no self upvoting at all? Posts included.
No clue. It hasn't been tried as far as I know. Though that is very easy to get around. Just delegate power to another account and up vote yourself with that.
So I don't think that is a solution either.
Yeah, I know.
There is plenty of that already I'd say. I just don't think a flag war is productive. It would be nicer if the 'don't be a dick' rule would self govern.
The second rule of Steemit should be "Don't be a dick." Covers basically everything rule #1 doesn't.
Yep. I agree.