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RE: My Pledge Going Forward: ZERO Self-Votes!
Yeah I've never voted my comments, that seems weird and self serving. But upvoting my own posts I've been doing since day one.
Now if I just sat back, never upvoted other peoples posts or comments, I can see an issue with self voting. But I spread it around as much as I can :)
To each their own, but if self voting was an issue I think they would have not allowed for people to do that in the code?
Well, I guess we've taken similar approaches with self-voting until now.
In some cases, self-voting would be bad. Imagine any of the accounts of Steemit Inc. (or personal accounts of Ned and staff) self-voting. They rarely upvote, as far as I know, but a self-vote from them is almost unimaginable.
As always, there are abusers, and they will take this freedom to self-vote to the extreme. And they will continuously find new ways to game a system, if that's their plan.
When done with moderation and especially by small players with little influence on the reward pool, trending page and so on, I don't think there's an issue with self-voting.
It's more a situation of personal choice. As I said in the post, it might be more difficult to change my mind later on, when my vote worth would be higher, than now, when it's only a few cents.
Dude if my account ever got that big, I would love to have that personal problem LOL To self vote or not! lol
Even a few dollars vote matters to the point you might not want to let go! You know... my precious... self-vote, LOL!
Well, I guess we've taken similar approaches with self-voting until now.
In some cases, self-voting would be bad. Imagine any of the accounts of Steemit Inc. (or personal accounts of Ned and staff) self-voting. They rarely upvote, as far as I know, but a self-vote from them is almost unimaginable.
As always, there are abusers, and they will take this freedom to self-vote to the extreme. And they will continuously find new ways to game a system, if that's their plan.
When done with moderation and especially by small players with little influence on the reward pool, trending page and so on, I don't think there's an issue with self-voting.
It's more a situation of personal choice. As I said in the post, it might be more difficult to change my mind later on, when my vote worth would be higher, than now, when it's only a few cents.