RE: My 1,000th Post: Why SteemIt Sucks! (what can we do to improve it?)
I basically agree with everything you said, but I would like to take this opportunity to take the edge off your criticism of self-voting...
I state that it is okay and, perhaps, even constructive to upvote yourself when you make a good post and get zero response. I've made hundreds of posts on Steemit where I took up to as much as an hour or more of research, formulation and refining of a comment only to earn $0.00. In this case, I believe it is okay to upvote yourself and perhaps you are morally obligated to do so unless you consider your own efforts to be worthless tripe.
In general, I've seen a slight improvement in the upvoting problem lately, but Steemit has a long way to go in this area.
My best understanding of upvoting success on Steemit can be summed up by Pappa-Pepper's article:
Often, @papa-pepper is asked a certain question. The question is "How do you become successful on steemit?"... or some variation of that. Basically, others want to know how they can do what I do. The problem is that there is no real answer. As far as I know, no one can reproduce my results. I can't even do it.
I appreciate the feedback. I think your depth of commenting is not the norm on this platform, and agree that good content deserves reward, if it is your own or not. But my guess is you do good comments because you enjoy good conversation, adding value etc... In a world without self-votes it seems to me that perhaps others would hand out votes more freely to others, and you might be rewarded in that manner. Also, as long as it exists, it only makes sense that you would allocate at least some portion to self-voting, others are doing it kind of forces you to, I think 100% is too much though, and that is the incentive right now to just only vote your own stuff. Cheers