If you have been to the internal market today, you might notice a lot of 7.77 and 77.7 sized orders. That's my automated market maker. I am NOT doing any self-trades, so totally at the mercy of others filling my orders. What I do is fill in the gap between the highest bid and lowest ask with ever closer quotes. I dont bother getting closer than .001 apart that is really quite good and other market makers will squeeze inside to provide even tighter spreads.
If you look at https://steemd.com/tools you will see that my trading account "taker" is about #40 on the list with 67,000+ liquidity points. At the top of the list, accounts that self trade thousands of STEEM with itself accumulate million+ points, but these are the current rules. My quotes are so close together than they hardly ever last more than 30 minutes, so they expire or get filled and dont last the required 30 minutes to earn any points.
I wont complain, I will just post what is happening. If you think the current system is unfair, then please upvote. My goal has been to create useful liquidity, regardless of the point system, not that there is anything wrong with getting points