I was under the impression that the idea was to upvote the content you believe to be worthy.
I upvote content that I find interesting, informative and/or funny, and hope that people will do the same for the content that I produce.
I don't particularly care who produced the content, although there are a few people I tend to read more than others, but I'm always looking for new people to read.
With that said, my votes aren't really worth a shit anyway, usually about 1 cent at 100%. I invested what I could afford without having to sell my soul, but that in reality was pratically nothing compared to many non here.
I rarely upvote my self, I never use bidbots and I've never paid anyone for upvotes or restreems... Maybe that's where I'm going wrong!
Shit! I can't remember where I was going with this now...
But anyway, that's me!
It was supposed to be that you upvote the best content, but as you are able to use bots and self upvote etc, people do (myself included). This annoys a portion of the community.
Yes, I have noticed many people self upvoting. For some I can see it how it makes sense to do so when they are getting a dollar or more per vote... Why wouldn't they upvote themselves.
I usually don't beacuse, at the moment, it's pointless because of the value of my votes.
The people that do though, have a much larger investment in steem than I can afford. The way I see it is that they should be able to gain some interest on that investment - if that is achived through self upvoting , so be it.
I imagine the complainers are more than likely jealous because their votes don't have the same effect for them.
That said though I do think there should be some sort of cut off point to prevent the reward pool getting rapped too badly.
That was the idea, then people started creating crap and expecting handouts.
No concept of reward = effort then!
Or to quote Denis Waitley (an American motivational speaker)...
By time things get changed...end of the day money is the goal