If we allowed accounts to upvote themselves once a day, on a comment or post, it's a motive to hold HP.
Instead we insist on pretending we have a bunch of curators who read all the posts and vote accordingly.
If we treated Hive more like a social media site and less like an Author's Guild we would appeal to a larger market share.
But, yeah, currently not self upvoting is part of the super weird culture that HWs and a handful of the original Authors have created.
i don't like my comments on other social, it feels stupid. so i don't upvote it here :D
People do self vote in the ways you're describing. Leo voter will upvote leo content, for example. Splinterlands will upvote Splinterlands content. Holozing will upvote Holozing. And so on.
This puts product placement ads all over the place and the creators act like sellouts to get those votes. It's a real downer in some ways especially for the artists since when they deliver their own style, they'll make a lot less on average.
Just another issue that's quickly resolved by attracting people actually interested in supporting content, the real way (strange I have to add that "real" part in).
I am completely fine with others upvoting their posts. But I feel like upvoting comments is a bit much.
Well I hope one day we have better curators to replace the ones doing poorly. I still know curators that are doing a great job. But yes there are some I really question what they are doing sometimes.
Well, I don't care about posts vs. comments, but for a platform that's constantly complaining about people powering down, it's hilarious not to provide any incentives to hold.