I want to properly respond to this post now. We are simply hitting the ones upvoted the most. It does not matter, as you can see in the post above, by @inertia, is a clear example of a self upvoted comment used to troll. It does not matter. The point of highlighting this behaviour is to demonstrate that it is an imperative, post HF19, to eliminate direct self voting, and we are using every honest method possible to build a mandate to get Steemit, Inc to make this change part of HF20

The upvote was pulled by another member of the co-op, as they did not agree with me provoking inertia. Let the record however, stand, that he abused his vote power to put the nearest thing to a dickbutt top of this. I am upvoting with elfspice and l0k1, regardless of whether it goes anywhere near the $2 reward I have to hit to put something better, above it.

I thought I should just explain why your comment got such a big reward. This was a 100% upvote by kitty, to demonstrate the negative effects of massive self-upvotes on the default trending sort order of comments. The next post down below you, is clearly an abusive spammy post, intended to intimidate, and to flag it is outside our working parameters, but to illustrate a point, with what I considered the most valuable comment, which I can then further push down the pretty picture.

Note, that I am being intentionally provocative in this, because I consider his actions to be quite narcissistic and elitist in doing this. He could always push this comment down under your comment, the same way he did to the root, and in fact, it is my intention to tempt him, to see if he's getting the message.