In my research, I found that a large number of our members are against self-voting. Perhaps in writing they might seem to be apathetic to the issue but when they find out there is a different reaction.

Rewards pool abuser or bot farm???

What should one do when hivewatchers are looking the other way (ignore my report) & even whales like @acidyo upvote them. Are they part of it? I'm talking about @cwow2 - a self voting, spamming abuser!

 [Image Source](https://www.pexels.com/photo/roasted-coffee-beans-2309058/) ### Hi HIVIANs, today I ask myself (so you): "Is self-upvoting a good idea or not?" This time, I don't ask, because I just want to know your opinion - more I really do not know if it's good (based on the impacts on APR and on the reputation) or not. It's a question I ask myself since I created my account on the STEEM blockchain. Maybe you can tell me more about "why"/"why not" when checking an answer! Thank you guys very much in advance! ### Have a nice start into your week! ## Peace # XCHNG

Let's Talk about Self-Voting The idea of Proof of Brain is that content and curation should be rewarded rather than bots. See Also other discussions of community conduct here It's come to my attention

Cub, CUB , cubs, cubs... CUBS everywhere. Every second post. I'm starting to get tired of this. Lets talk about curation for a little change. About voting and self-upvoting. We all do this time to time,

What's up my Peeps, Welcome to the Daily @D00k13! Out first thing in the morning at the Gorge Waterway on an extremely frosty morning. Happened to catch the Dragon Boat rowers practicing ... must be cold

Check out the hypocrisy of the circle jerking self votes of #hivewatchers

People often talk about "the calm before the storm," but we rarely hear of the opposite: The calm that follows a storm. It's very quiet in the world. I went for a walk through our neighborhood...

When you’re being targeted by someone for absolutely nothing? If your content is somewhat halfway not shit? Lol. Asking for a friend of a friend. (That friend of my friend is me. I’m the friend of my friend.

Steemit is decentralized which brings a lot of advantages. But there is also a great danger involved: it gives people power over other people who may not be able to defend themselves.   This has been a

MY THOUGHTS ABOUT SELF VOTING. WHY IS IT EVEN THERE??? Hey guys its Francesca here with another #prettynicevideo and TODAY'S #talktalk #minitalk My thoughts about self voting. STARTING MY JOURNEY I NEVER

Even though my vote is barely worth anything at all, I'm stopping upvoting myself. I've done a bit of research and it seems that the general consensus is that this is frowned upon highly! I thought "Oh

On another thread I thought of a great solution to self voting.... voter dispersion power! In the same way we weighty votes by frequency of votes in that more frequent votes have less power, we could weight

Seriously though, it just doesn't seem right at all, I try to never upvote anybody whose been upvoting themselves. you should only upvote other peoples stuff. Don't act like it's not as pathetic as liking

Source In the past I have been very vocal in my anti bot stance. I was of a mind that my content earned whatever perceived value my readers thought it deserved. I dismayed every time I accidentally clicked