I am upvoting my own posts and will continue. I see your point about the small amount, but that small amount is important to me. No numbers on my posts are big, and so every penny counts. I also upvote my son's posts, so that makes me even more of a bad guy around here.

Since steemit removed the upvote button on the post entry screen, I'm seeing most smaller people no longer upvote their own posts since they do not know they can. The whales must be thrilled.

I never upvote my own comments either unless for visibility. I have probably done that less than 10 times in a year. I find it better to reply to another comment on the post and upvote that comment to bring my reply up with it if I need to.

I do upvote the good comments I get on my posts. But lately, MANY people have started upvoting their own comments. So in that case, I am not upvoting them since they already did. I'm not sure what caused this new behavior because I did not see it until this last few weeks. If the whales do not want us upvoting our own posts, they must really hate the self-comment upvotes.

I'm also seeing people put bot upvotes on their comments now - lots of them! Holy cow! I get the bot replies in my comments too now. How did this become a thing?

Due to the voting dust issue, I do not make any vote anywhere unless it is 3 cents or more.