I'm new to Steemit and can't believe you're allowed to upvote your own comments or posts and actually get rewarded for this. So dumb or lazy users who don't know or care for this trick are undermined? How many other tricks are there in steem for those "in-the-know" to hog all of the rewards? How can we trust there won't me a ton of forks in the future to redistribute all the power onto the enlightened ones?

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