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RE: Upvoting Yourself
It's a bit of a bummer, because by that logic a good post that no one bothered to upvote (because there aren't many users / they didn't see it / they already saw many posts by that point and are kind of tuning out etc.) comes across the same as something that someone "downvoted" i.e. ignored. It would be interesting actually to give posts a rating rather than upvote only. So like when you mouse over it comes up with 5 stars, and you can set your upvote rating to anywhere between the 5 stars. In the end you see the average ratings. That would be pretty useful I think.
But definitely I applaud someone thinking up ways to discourage downvoting save for actual abuse of the system, or awful behaviour. It's the same on Reddit but people do use the downvote button as a "disagree" button. Upvote isn't meant to be flat out agreement either, but a blanket "this is a good post, it added something worth thinking about to the discussion" whether you personally agreed with it or not. I'd say upvoting the posts/comments you felt compelled to comment on is good form, as by your own admission it's worth saying something about / in response. Unless you hate it and want to trash it lol.