Hi @edje,
Great post, thank you for sharing!
I was against self voting until now. I guess I just didn't thought trough in depth. My reasoning was that this people deprive that money from the reward pool.
After reading your article I've realized that this isn't the case because if they would vote for others, no matter what so the money would be gone anyway.
The moral aspect of self voting is another question of course. But I can't judge anyone because I don't know the underlying reasons behind their acts.
What I mean, can be explained with my own example: I self-vote my comments too because I'm having trouble with writing valuable posts, but I would love to curate more effectively. And to do that I need more SP! I never withdraw anything from the site In fact I bought 200 Steem on my first week.
So I'm trying to give value to this community. More value in the long run with the help of self voting now. Does that make sense?
Thanks for clearing my mind from the mist:)
Self voting as such I dont find a bad thing, unless it gets out of balance.
That makes sense and nothing wrong about !