Hi Steemians
Why do users upvote themselves?
Well i dont think that they couldnt find any interesting posts out there to upvote them. And I dont think that they are too shy to write a post or share their experiences.
Unfortunately many of them are spammers! They write comments everywhere without even reading the posts or upvoting them. They upvote only their comments or let their friends do it. So imagine if everyone of them writes about 100 comments per day and let his friends upvote his comments! This will lead to major unnecessary problems on Steemit and a decrease of the Steem price. While many other Steemians will be frustrated, because nobody reads their posts.
I do not think it is good to to self-upvote your comments, mostly the short comments "Nice post", "Thank you for the information" etc... That make us even doubt if the person commenting read the post or not.
Other users come rarely online and arent even active in the community. They upvote only their posts and leave. Thats another lazy way to earn money. They invest in the platform and upvote every single one of their own posts. I understand that many of them invested a lot of money in the community, but it wont harm to check new posts of new people and reward them. And here I am talking about upvote worth 150$ and more not 0.50$ Thats a big difference :) And sometimes these upvotes go to a meme or meaningless posts!
Can users upvote their posts?
Absolutely! Steemians are allowed to upvote their posts. Mostly newbies, because their votes don't seem to carry much weight in anyway. And their voting power is nothing compared to those of some whales. We should follow a balanced voting strategy that focuses more on others than ourselves. But nothing wrong with us upvoting our posts.
What do you think about self-upvoting. Is it acceptable or not! Is it Good or Bad!
Upvoting your own posts is of course a personal choice and if you are a minnow you get more exposure by self-upvote. So maybe we shouldn't really think about right or wrong but about the right strategy to play this "Game".
Thank you for reading and I would like to know your opinion as well :)
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