Thanks for taking the time to read/comment. Hopefully more people reply with ideas and views like yourself so we can get a decent conversation going.
Self upvoting is an interesting one. I upvote all of my posts but don't think I've ever posted more than once a day and I upvote other peoples stuff far more than I upvote mine but I do see the problem where people with large SP holdings put out 10 posts a day of shit and upvote themselves. It's hard to see a solution to it because a big part of Steemit is that there are no rules and you can do with your stake what you please and this is often used as a justification for anything and everything.