If you want to go parse the blockchain and give me the numerical figures of how much I earned through self-voting, that might make your accusation have more merit. If you feel like taking on that challenge I would really love to see the results.
The biggest votes I lost were during one "incident" when I helped to absolutely destroy the blockchain by sending a negative integer in a withdrawal (seems like quite the oversight in developing the chain that had been running in production for 3 years at that point ...)
The rest came from the fact that backup witnesses were not earning enough to justify a 64GB+ witness server. It was a fiscally responsible decision for me to divest my STEEM and shut down my witness server while STEEM took an absolute beating and witnesses made less by the day. Anyone not capable of being honest with you regarding that level of earnings issue with Steem should probably not be trusted.
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You linked to a post where SteemCleaners got involved with me "self voting" to get more stake/tokens/funds for a project I was developing with others. Isn't the point of the Steem blockchain to blog and get paid? Isn't the whole value proposition of buying STEEM to power up (and locking for 3 months) to have control over how the reward pool is distributed?
Maybe you are just short sighted and the only use for Steem you can image is a niche social media blogging platform. Well, thankfully, I see far more for Steem than that little pigeon-holed proof of concept. Steem, and by extension Graphene, is so amazing that I have chosen to make it my career specialty in programming.
You can easily find me at https://boonedevelopment.com, https://github.com/netuoso, https://linkedin.com/in/chaneyandrew/, https://twitter.com/netuoso, https://steemit.com/@netuoso, the SteemDevs discord server, and various other Steem and crypto related forums. The skills and knowledge I possess can be objectively validated from several external sources. My time and energy is valuable to me, as is the time and energy of the people that assist me when I need it.
To be clear, SteemCleaners asked me to create a simple but useless bot that I could vote instead of "self voting" so they wouldn't have to pursue me for "self voting" -- and I did it for a little while @haveaflag
If you want to vote based on politics or some loose definition of morality when it applies to the subjectiveness of the Steem reward pool then by all means, don't vote for me. But if you want to vote for a knowledgeable and time tested Graphene/C++/Steem/EOS developer that isn't afraid to go against the status quo even though it might hurt his perceived reputation or standing in the "community", then go right ahead and send a witness vote my way.
Don't forget to get me those statistics on my reported earnings from self voting please. If you can include the entire history of my account that would be useful. Thanks!
Correction, it was for "comment farming". SteemCleaners doesn't deal with "self voting". The simple but useless bot is a "service bot" that may bring enjoyment to others, adding value. Semantics mostly but still important.
If @pumpkin reads this, Netuoso is actually a good witness and would be better in consensus over some others who don't even run any part of their nodes themselves or understand how the chain works.
Oh well that too.
Thanks for the support either way.