I agree. Upvoting your own posts shouldn't be a cause for critics to act like self-righteous vampires.

I've noticed that when I post, my upvote is automatically included. So to keep the critics happy, I must then quickly un-upvote.

If the platform doesn't want to reward people for self-curation, that is upvoting your own posts, they could easily just pay no curation for self upvotes. Wouldn't that take the air out of the critics balloon?

But as it stands now, steemit pays for self curation. So I will start upvoting my own posts now. I say go ahead and upvote anyone's post, even your own, as you wish, without the self-righteous critics becoming self appointed steemit police.

My upvote only added 0.04, so un-upvoted myself....