It is OK to upvote yourself when your vote is only worth a few cents. The whales votes are worth several dollars each, and when they upvote it cleans out the steem pool generated for that day leaving a few pennies for the rest of us to split. Upvote yourself at will. I just upvoted you too.
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But if the whales hadn't bought into steem and powered it up then reward pool would be pennies for everyone anyway.
There is set amount of steembucks that get generated every day. That is where the upvote money comes from. When your vote has low value, voting has minimal impact on the overall pool. When your vote is worth a lot, it is a drain on that pool. By the time your posts are generating lots of upvotes from other people. it is just sort of poor taste to keep upvoting yourself. This is not a hard rule or even something I made up, it is what I have gathered listening to others here.
Finally someone who gets it.
Thank you :) :)