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RE: #project-smackdown week 2 report
I regularly self vote as I like to get my comments to the top where they will be more likely to be seen and engaged with. It is the same reason I upvote my posts.
One of the revenue goals of steemit from the start was to allow people to self promote their material as a form of advertising. If there was no advantage to buying steem why would anyone do it?
Cream does not rise to the top, look at reddit, the top comment is the earliest OK comment. You could have the best comment ever and post late and you wouldn't get seen by nearly anyone.
Anyway as you don't like it i will refrain from up voting myself here
I read your post a couple of weeks ago about self voting comment spam, and it's close to our idea here, as I said at the time.
Self up voting comments for exposure is something a lot of people do, and feel entitled to do. We've discussed it a lot at the Coop and I still side with the idea that large self up votes, even if used for comment exposure on a long thread, are not something I can stand behind. At the end of the day, these end up being rewards for the commenter which have been self assigned. Whatever way you cut it, it is not behavior I want to reward.
Of course that's just my opinion though, and I run this bot (with the help of others) to that end. I would not like to think that you blinding follow this just because I don't like it! Rather if you do refrain from self voting that it is the result of your own self thoughts on the matter 🙂
The bottom line is that voting for others needs to be more rewarded by the system than voting for ourselves. We cannot simply appeal to altruism as some (maybe a lot) will always take advantage of that situation.
I would be open to the idea of some <1 multiplier for self votes, but if it was too much I would just withdraw all my STEEM and continue to post with a low steem account. I would guess that 80-90% of my rewards come from posting, what would be the reason to own SP?
Influence on the platform was always the goal of SP as I understand it. That extends to voting, for posts and comments and also for witnesses.
The whitepaper is very clear that self voting needs to be less attractive in terms of rewards than voting for others, i.e. than curation. This was messed up by HF 19 at the expense of the good idea of giving more voting power to those with less SP.
The whole point of voting at all is to curate other people's posts. The rewards are motivators to this end. Self voting does not help this goal, it is simply pay for exposure. Who would really want that? It sounds like advertisers advertising to other advertisers.
If you withdrew your SP as STEEM because of comment up votes being less rewarded, or even entirely unrewarded, I guess you will have missed the point and would not have the opportunity to be rewarded for being part of something larger than getting people to view your own posts and comments.
I don't dismiss this reaction though and I am curious if there are a lot of people, especially high SP holders, who would do (or say they would do) the same.