Self voting is an often discussed (and discouraged) practice around here. In many ways, it becomes noise and no long acts as a strong signal identifying valuable content. Many whales flag people who do it and many community memebers get frustrated to see it happening. Yes, you may be increasing your SP, but that's at the expense of others who would have otherwise gained from the rewards pool had you not self voted.
I'm glad you engage. That's certainly valuable, but is it that valuable? Are you okay with other great content not be rewarding as your comments are?
I’m not personally talking about building my own Steem power , I’m talking about building Echowhales Steem power . I have purchased delegation from blocktrades to run the service of Echowhale and echosupport , paying over 1K a month for it, I am using the money I’ve spent to upvote my comments and run the bot as well . I