The problem is even greater when your vote worth is higher. There is a lot of temptation to upvote your own stuff.
I have 2 rules:
- Never upvote my own comments (anymore).
- Always upvote my own posts - people tend to vote on posts with other votes.
That being said, I think Steemit should remove rewards on self upvoting. If people are more incentivised to upvote their own stuff than other stuff, then the platform is FU%#D!
I think if you have a decent vote power the strategy should change, like from dolphin level at least. but as minnow, when you have 0,02 rewards and 10 votes mostly the bigger accounts will not touch you.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
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