If the developers / witnesses / founders of steemit thought that your own content should not be upvoted, then why does the system permit it? Obviously the latest hardfork encourages more self-upvoting with the linear distribution of voting power, but why was the option included in the system from the start? Why wasn't it removed in the latest hardfork? Have they failed morally for including it? Could there be a reason for including it?
I don't think the best approach is to make a big deal out of self-upvoting, especially minnows upvoting their own articles. Minnows need every bit of vesting they can get. That 20 cent upvote may be worth $20 someday.
Even for a whale, when you bring your own money into this platform then you would be wise to seek out the greatest return possible given the boundaries set by the platform. See this whale's article: https://steemit.com/steem/@tamim/is-self-voting-really-bad-why-is-it-shameful-what-s-with-the-public-shaming
I have seen abuse of self-upvoting comments, but there is also a proper time to self-upvote your own comment, like when you think what you have written is important and you want to see it at the top of all the other comments. Perhaps that's one reason the system permits it.
Of course, you are free to upvote and ignore whomever you choose, but in my opinion, if the community has a problem with self-upvoting, take it to the witnesses and if they think it's a smart move, they can remove the option in a future hardfork.
Until then, let the boundaries of the system determine what is and is not permissable.
Edit: Sorry, I meant to also say I really appreciate your heart that this post came out of - a desire to lift up others in the community as a priority. I respect that and am 100% on the same page.
Word.
You are entirely rational.
I like your line of reason.
Thanks for posting.
You have some serious and plausible arguments here. And I have always liked a good argument based discussione without turning it into a fight. puts on his box gloves hehehe kidding. Ok, ill respond to every argument in order to make it readable:
That is why I said "should" not can or must, because the option is there and we can use it as we please. I don´t think it must go away the option of autovoting, I think it is there because sometimes it is useful or right to use.
My intention was not to make a big deal, my intention was to show what worked for me and try to make people adopt it. Personally, I think that is the best way to impprove our community, there might be others, but this one is my chosen one.
I agree, self voting is healthy some times but it is the abuse that might end up killing steemit due to new people not sticking and coming back...
I don´t want to take it down, witnesses know better and I think if they deem it necessary, at some point they will but I highly doubt it will happen, especially with the growth rate we have right now.
For the edit: Dont worry! Never read it as an attack! :D
Not sure if you've read this, but here's a helpful and balanced perspective on the topic: https://steemit.com/selfvotes/@stellabelle/partial-solution-to-self-upvote-stampede
Thanks for posting this; I think it's interesting, and important to our community.