Yes, it might not make too much of a difference as you say. But 95% or more of the steemit community are minnows, if they all think like you say, about giving themselves an upvote on at least 1 post that means that the community is losing 195,000 extra interactions between users.
For you it might not mean a lot that upvote you gave yourself... but we are talking about the community, Steemit Platform, the one that is actually paying us for content via other users upvotes. By increasing interaction we increase Steem´s value.
But I mean, how you describe it is waay better than just auto-voting automatically haha so I guess it is better than nothing :D
I understand your point and get why you're going about it this way, I just happen to disagree.
Steemit isn't 'paying us' anything. We create the value ourselves and can do what we like with it. 10 full upvotes per day means that you can still upvote yourself several times and have plenty left over to be generous with other posters.
Just my opinion! Good luck to you, sir :).
I also get your point, this is not a fight I really like argument based discussions hehe
Well, the money we get comes from a daily fixed amount creation of STEEM and Steemit gives it to the users based on the proportion they get from the daily upvotes... so techincally yes, Steemit is giving the money to us.
You create value with your posts but without this platform, your posts and mine are worth zero on facebook. So yeah, we are all getting paid by steemit, it is only a matter of trying to keep the community healthy, upvoting your own posts does not add anything for the platform, just for you :(
Again, I disagree. We get money from the platform and blockchain, not from Steemit Inc. The whole point is that it is worth something on fb... We just don't get paid for that value, it goes to fb instead. Steemit's whole point is that the value belongs to us.
Keeping the community healthy means different things to different people. To me it means honoring value where you find it... yes, even your own. Also there seemed to be an insinuation that you were getting more upvotes because you stopped upvoting yourself. My main point is that it makes little to no difference. I've been here a while and have done a LOT of research on this point.
It's not a fight for me, lol. I'm just pointing out a counter-opinion based on my experiences. I don't want you to make newbies feel bad about upping themselves, especially if they deliver value. That is a personal decision, and doesn't really effect the platform that much if you're a minnow (I don't think it really effects it negatively even if you're larger).
Upping your own posts does add value to the community. Remember, you get SP from those posts which will make your votes towards others even more powerful. Again, it's a bit of a moot point if you're under a 1,000 SP.
I like argument-based discussions, too :). Hope this helps.
My posts are worth something, your posts are worth something. But I AM MUCH MORE LIKELY TO VOTE FOR MYSELF than anyone else is, at first, especially. Just trying to get the ball rolling around here has been a great labor (of love). But while I'm still looking for my audience and followers, and my own writing style, I'll keep voting for those I enjoy, and myself.I agree with @jenkinrocket