Thank you for your feedback.

I will usually upvote my post about 30 minutes or so after I post it which, as near as I know, gives others a crack at the curation rewards. I don't generally upvote my own comments.

Voting for you own post, I guess this is best to do this immediately to give a little bit more rewards to you as the author. After 30 minutes the curation rewards seems to be split amongst curators only, without any percentage to the author. However, within 30 minutes, quite a few bots vote already, and also manual voters, and the more voting power you have in front of you, the less vote rewards goes to you due to a very non linear curve on vote weight and order of vote.

I do respect you vote for your own posts!