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and the anti spamming bot upvotes itself as well? I sense hypocrisy. See my post on my actions: it was an experiment to demonstrate the problematic nature of self-voting.

And you are totally not the first person to have use that as a reason.

and how many people made a post about this, essentially verifying their claims?

https://steemit.com/steemit/@tobetada/my-self-experiment-arbitrary-power-used-by-arbitrary-people

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This was a test to highlight the problem of self voting

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