Yes I was intentionally obnoxious to make a point. The point being, I can upvote anyone I damn well please. I can protect my comments from downvote trolls, I can upvote my own comments to move them to the top, this is nothing new and has been practiced since the inception of Steemit.

If someone makes a wise comment about me moving our conversation to the top so everyone can see it over everything else (because it was a pertinent discussion and everything else was mainly noise) then that's what I will do and what others do routinely.

Being called out like I've done something wrong for moving our conversation to the top was what drew my sarcastic response. If you really want to see obnoxious, scroll back a few months in Steemit history to see real whales giving themselves hundreds of dollars for their own comments for no apparent reason. I was simply making a point that the guy was being a wise ass for no reason and that I have the right to upvote whoever I want, even myself to move the conversation up.