Hi Brian,

Here hence lies the problem:

The frustration of seeing a lot of my support delegate their power away to the the voting bots and you certainly get that feeling sometimes that maybe I should just break bad and be a 90% self vote Rat Bastard or just run an upvote bot as well.

For all smaller stake holder near the boarder size of minnow-dolphins and below, the economic benefit of self-upvoting is really not that beneficial, we can do much better using our upvote to networking (eg. Comment upvoting), encourage others, and in the spirit of adding value, bigger fishes who recognise our efforts still overtake our own payout from any self-upvote efforts.

The problems arise with those 50,000Steem and above seeing that talent to gain a $15-$25 post is not worth the effort when they can just bot it out.

In short you and I will never benefit as much breaking bad, we're just too small, we can only give up, and if enough of us give up adding great value to Steem it will become very bad for the bigger fishes.

They balance lies in part in this statement by Kevin

but at least profit maximisation activities could move away from total selfvote and abuses could be easier to curb

without Orcas and Whales withholding some modest percentage % SP back to be reinvested....there will be NO LONG TERM INCENTIVE for Value Content Growth and New Talent Retention.

Go read the Reply section whole post to see this argument laid out for all:

700,000SP Whale Upvoting Self 98%

https://steemit.com/funny/@traf/singing-in-the-shower

The truth is that the Whales Are The Ones who also need the education & Awareness on how they are stunting their own Steem value appreciation.