On Upvoting Your Own Comments

in steem •  6 years ago  (edited)

Buzzword Bingo: Upvote

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Some Steemians upvote their own comments. Among those people there are many new users and there are some old users. I have written 4993 comments and have only upvoted less than a handful of them myself and I have only done so because I've had some unusually important piece of information to convey.

Most Steemians I know refrain from upvoting their own comments, too. Why you may ask if most people, if not all, upvote their own posts? Well, Steemit and other user interfaces of the Steem blockchain order comments according to the how much they're worth based on their upvotes. If you're upvoting your own comment, you're pushing your comment above other comments. It is generally considered good practice to allow other people to decide how much visibility your comment deserves in the comment section of a post. It's also considered polite. Aggressively upvoting your own comments is a bit like shouting other people down in a conversation. So, I would like to ask those of you who do it to refrain upvoting your own comments in the comment sections of my blog posts. Thank you very much.

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It's all about the money

What is all about the money? And what money do you mean by the money?

I think voting others rather than yourself is a better choise in the longrun solely because this is a social media site. I rather upvote bunch of people that may some day upvote me back than use my daily votes selfvoting. If I'd only selfupvote, there's zero change anyone else upvoting me back than me, myself and I. And few selfvotes isn't bad if one has a good reason. What ever it is.

So I don't care if someone else selfupvotes. It's a personal choise and anyways it's much more visible than paid votes. Which I have almost nothing against if only the trending page would be done a bit differently.

I never up vote my comments. I need to have as many votes for others as I can.

I think I know why they do it. Although you are in all your right to demand or put conditions. That said, I recently learned that upvotes below $ 0.026 do not generate rewards and being honest with you a few days ago I gave upvotes to some comments of 5 and 6 days to check this. I apologize!

I see. You can automate that using a bot called Dustsweeper. You can pay it for going through your comments on the sixth day and upvoting them to get them over the threshold. I've been happy with it.

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  ·  6 years ago (edited)

That's exactly what say our friend @lanzjoseg.

Thanks to our friend Markku I knew the bot called Dustsweeper, from that moment I started to study his behavior after a month I made a post in Spanish and from there I use it. I really recommend you to use it.

Friend you can make recommendation of this app. I would like to know your opinion.

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It's pretty user-friendly. It's not clunky and slow like eSteem was last summer. The only complaints I have are that I haven't discovered how to add more than one photo to a post or any photos to comments at all.

I installed Steepshot on my wife's cell phone because mine does not have much capacity, there if you can mount a photo ...
I'll see how I do to test that app-. Thank you

The one that gets me more angry, is that some will vote their comments and will not upvote the post.

Yep. That's for douchebags. The worst will drop some stupid generic comment, not upvote the post but upvote their shit comment pushing it above other people's valuable comments. Then I may have to use my voting power to flag the self-upvoted shit comment to push it back down. Annoying.

Hahaha!!! Really annoying.

I always vote in my own posts, but I think I've only voted in one of my comments, and it was in one that I leaves to someone to vote in their own comment, but not vote for the post.