I'm not gonna post a wall of text here (you know I want to! lol) so just want to recommend the VP decay curve proposed by @liberosist, which is that we get ~100 votes at full power, and then VP rapidly decays to nothing, that I think is the best option presently to address the issue.
Thanks for bringing your perspective on how to consider the self voting issue. You got one of my 10 measly votes =p
You get a full upvote for all your work on these comments. May I suggest you turn some of these to posts :p. You are doing the work. I am looking at the VP post now, will reply after.
Can you link the article, I think I am reading the wrong one. This one suggests an inverse in loss of voting power.
I actually did search for it, but, despite having linked to it before, was unable to find it.
As you might guess, searching my comments is like looking for a bush in a forest...
I'll look again, but if there's a graphic showing two lines that represent VP decay, that's the right post.
Side note on your side note: brevity is the soul of wit! I really like making long comments and rolling things out but sometimes I can't read everything you write because I don't have the time. Happy to see a short one 😜
LOL clearly I am not often witty =p