A lot of great stuff here - I'm still going through but wanted to say something - Self-votes are dangerous and the unwritten rules should change. I don't upvote my posts, but I do occasionally upvote comments to 'rise above' the sea of bots and no-vote comments.

Self voting defeats the steem-use case - where voting helps determine subjective values. Voting on your own material doesn't provide that info.

I may have more thoughts - but the main one is this: keep making great, thoughful posts like this and I will keep following you ;p

Edit: Only one thing to add - @surpassinggoogle is a saint indeed! More like him there may not be - but hopefully Steem will continue allowing people to be the best 'them' they can be. Steem on Paula!