Self up-voting 10 times each time your power has reloaded will make you rich - so?
This will kill the platform and there are much better ways to earn and gain respect in the community
Steemit will eat itself
There is talk that up-voting yourself on full power 10 times and then repeating this in 5 days when you are 'recharged', could well indeed make you a millionaire in around 7 years from an initial $100 investment. I've not checked into the validity of these numbers, and honestly i'm not going to because this to me is not what i want to see or read about at all.
For the seasoned members of the community, they should be well aware this behavior will send the platform into oblivion. When i see Witnesses/standby witness/users with a large amount of Steem Power discussing this, it gets me angry. It sounds long-sighted, but for me its the exact opposite. Unethical, not in the best interests of the platform, go away.
Other ways to earn and gain respect
When you have your follower base, you will post once or twice a day and make $50 -> $3000 each time. Job done, and welcome to victory!
If you are new or don't have a niche topic area /loyal follower base, then it will be commenting on posts that earns the majority of your Steem. Of course, continue with the blogs and see what happens, just don't be too disappointed you have put 4 hours work in for $.50.
Summary
I'm not against up-voting your own blogs if you have put a few hours work into them, just be respectful to the platform and don't fuck it up for the rest of us. Spread your votes, combine them with comments, and perhaps you'll get lucky, or a new follower. I've had a $60 and $80 up-vote to a comment in the past 2 weeks, that's enough motivation to keep me away from self up-voting my 5 word comments all day and enough confirmation to know not to concern myself with compound interest on Steemit.
What's the views of people here? Ignore it and hope it goes away?
Should these posts be flagged? Is it fair game?
And am i a total hypocrite paying bots to up-vote my posts?!
Enjoy your weekend
Asher