RE: How I Plan on NOT Self Up-Voting and Thriving Regardless
I won't join you on the non-self-upvoting path but I admire your dedication to the cause ! Now, let me explain why I upvote myself.
Pride in my content
I am always proud in what I make and I believe anybody should if they took some time and effort to create a post or anything else for that matter. I've always expressed that pride by liking my stuff, I did it already on YouTube by liking my videos as soon as they were uploaded. So it seems natural for me to keep doing that on Steemit.Indicator of my view on the quality of the post
I have actually told to my french followers what my votes percentages meant when voting on my own posts. I vote at 100% when it's for charity as every cent counts, 50% on posts that I genuinely think are quality posts and 25% on shitposts (posts that take no time to get created). So it's more of a way for them to know what I believe the post is worth.Giving it a boost in view
As you mentionned, upvoting your own post can attract the eye of users scrolling through the various new posts that get added every second on the "created" tab. Most people are more inclined on clicked on a post with already an upvote than none as they have the mindset of voting to make money by curation rewards.
I don't actually care about the money I make from self-upvoting. What I've always wanted to see on Steem and I hope to see is a change in the self-upvoting rewards. I would love to have self-upvotes only upvoting and not giving any reward to the author and sending the reward of the upvote to the @null account. It would ultimately be beneficial for the value of Steem as everything sent to the @null account gets deleted.
It was a nice read, thanks !
Thank you, @ragepeanut, both for the up-vote as well as the top-class comment. :c)
Seriously - a little more of this and that and it could easily enough have made for an acceptable post. ^_^
You make very good counter-points. Adding a dimension of pride does add a degree of legitimacy to self-up-votes, and variably judging your own posts when it comes to deciding how much up-vote to give them is a lot more consideration than some users undertake in doing so. As such I consider you to be ahead of the curve!
Yes - visibility is something that I knowingly sacrifice - and that effect shall be more pronounced in future. :cP That is fine. I have a backup plan. ;c)
Your suggestion that Steemit allocate self-up-vote awards on posts to the @null account is an excellent one! I am getting a few ideas on the basis of this suggestion In summary:
A cool-down on voting content from the same user. The cool-down does not prevent user voting but it does determine what percentage goes to @null
A comment up-vote is /automatically at 10% unless powered up by a given user. Cool-down on comment-upvotes on a given user is similarly automatically at 10%.
The @null account, rather than destroying the monies incoming, cycles it exclusively towards development of SteemIt and Steemit Initiatives.
Thank you again @ragepeanut. Always a pleasure to see you in comments. :c)