RE: What wiser thinks of self upvoting
@wiser, I don't really see anything inherently wrong with upvoting one's own comments... although I choose not to, most of the time. My personal perception is that Steemit is primarily a community and "gift economy," and if you use most of your voting power on yourself it can end up thinning the community. I think the concern also has been about the quality of what people upvote... it's one thing to upvote a meaningful comment that engages the original content... quite another to scatter "nice post" around the site and then upvote yourself 100% for doing so. If everybody did so... why would anyone bother to post anything worthwhile? And then, why would anyone bother to join the site? And with nobody bothering to join, what would happen to the price of Steem?
Just playing Devil's advocate here.
All fair points. I believe that those who are too narrowly focused (read, on themselves) when upvoting ultimately won't do very well here, so they kind of weed themselves out. For that reason I'm not too concerned. Personally, I avoid commenting or posting unless I actually have something to say, and I think posting empty words will also ultimately hurt someone because they then get the reputation of producing poor quality content. Again, those people will weed themselves out.