steemit.com/circlejerk/ lol that by itself gave me a smile thank you! @aggroed you make a lot of good points in this post very similar to what I mentioned at https://steemit.com/hf20/@jerrybanfield/we-double-our-steem-power-upvoting-ourselves-every-181-days but even better because a circle jerk allows for curation rewards as well as author rewards making it even better than just upvoting ourselves!
With flagging I think we already have a good solution because if their is an epic circle jerk somewhere then flagging should help remove those rewards. The problem with this is of course it could become a whale war with a circle jerk of down and upvotes which might be funny.
Seeing my own upvote give me $1 and watching me upvote or downvote a trending post for $100 was ridiculous. I like knowing I give everyone based on my voting power.
I don't know the answer and appreciate you helping us look more at it!
Hey, you're a legend. Thanks for stopping at my wall. Yeah, problem seems to have bad enough that it halfed the reward pool over the last week or so. Good thing we handed so much steem to our already high paid top authors...