Great post. There's a box u can check before you upload.. If they didn't want us to use one vote on our own posts why would it be there? You could just upload and upvote it yourself if u wanted to be sneaky or if it was forbidden which I don't think it is? Thought went into putting it there, why would the creators of the site do that if it was frowned upon? Usually it's only mega large accounts that have any problems and they dont care because they're already sitting pretty, I think they just get bored sometimes?Lol And circle jerks can be good and bad, it's a social platform and clearly you're going to look for your friends first and give them upvotes, that's human nature, were not all bots just yet. That being said it's everyone's responsibility to look for and curate new and quality material and I always save votes for that task. I use the resteem feature aswell when I find something I think more should see. We're a community and we have to look out for the well being of such but most of the greed I've witnessed on here is usually by the larger accounts, funny hey..