After examining these charts for sometime I realized that these upvotes were not in thousands of dollars. I was puzzled why there was such a big concern about a self upvote comment? Isn't the self upvote comment more profitable for the one self upvoting than curating with the same percentage upvote? If that is the case this is an issue for algorithm of the weight of the self up vote. Maybe the self up vote could still occur but the percentage of drop of power is sharply increased to limit abuse. Of course the original goal of the platform was to encourage the upvote of others content thought to be worthy.

By flagging or downvoting a post keep in mind that sometimes this negates all of the hundreds of minnow up-votes for a user. The real designed purpose of the downvote or flag in this platform wasn't because you do not like a person's actions or in actions or even spam. It isn't about their nationality or race or religious or political beliefs. This is the slippery slope.

From The White Paper ( The Essential Constitution Of Steemit)
"Eliminating “abuse” is not possible and shouldn’t be the goal. Even those who are attempting to “abuse” the system are still doing work. Any compensation they get for their successful attempts at abuse or collusion is at least as valuable for the purpose of distributing the currency as the make-work system employed by traditional Bitcoin mining or the collusive mining done via mining pools. All that is necessary is to ensure that abuse isn’t so rampant that it undermines the incentive to do real work in support of the community and its currency."
I'm not sure what the egregious offence of self up voting is? I'm not able to give myself but a penny at the current time. I do however understand that a large self up vote can make the curation amount that is paid out to others who have upvoted change...But is that in a good way or a bad way? So if someone were to self upvote a comment would that not add to the pool for all curators? Perhaps this is the solution. If you self upvote a comment the self up vote amount of the comment gets spread among all curators and thus isn't an issue. Please help me understand what I am missing? Thank you