I truly understand where you are coming from. Since I upvote my own comments periodically (6 times in last month), I wanted to make sure I wasn't abusing it. Less than 3 percent of the time I upvote my comments in the last month, per steemreports.com. Plus the rewards were less than .35 steem total rewards for those 6 upvotes, if I recall. I guess I am telling you this because I did upvote myself on a comment to you. Almost 100 percent of the time, when I do this, it is usually to get it to show above the spammers. But since you are opposed to this, I will refrain from it in the future. I am glad you mentioned this.