Especially when the self-appointed Steemit police, aka Hive account@steemcleaners, also upvote their own posts and comments.

That being said and before I get crucified, that could be part of their ability to return a larger amount to the reward pool as Hive account@paulag has shown. Honestly, I'm too ignorant of it all to be able to process that notion.

Self-voting will always be a thing. I recently, as in the last few days, began publishing using DSound and to my dismay, noticed it upvoted my post for me. I have no clue how to stop it which reminds me, I need to look during my next upload.

All I know is, I'm here to share great content, and I'm getting shafted by those who aren't, but it's okay. I'm also not here to find these jerks. However, my flag finger is ready and available to help whenever needed.