I'm always confused about self voting. In my earlier weeks here I read it was perfectly good to always give your posts an upvote but then in Discord I see people discuss that they think thats not ok. Maybe it just depends? I usually wait until my posts are getting close to the 5 - 6 days old mark before I upvote them myself. If i feel like they got enough votes or whatever I might just let it be, but with those ones that need just a little extra help why not? but my votes are only a penny right now anyways! I can see how it might cause more resentment when a dolphin or whale does it, since their votes are worth so much to a minnow's development.. so I do agree with you!
Yeah I feel like people have different opinions all the time about it, some whales are totally against it and some are all for it. Like you said I feel like it more on how and what you upvote yourself for.