So self voting is bad because it goes against the stated mission of Steemit ‘to use the wisdom of the crowds to determine a value for social media posts’, yet vote buying and automated voting via bots is acceptable?
That is one major contradiction. While I agree self voting does not help identify good content, nor does auto voting and bots and when you have a witness on the trending page having paid approx $2k for upvotes, I fell the platform has bigger issues than a few minnows upvoting themselves.