Almost 4 years on Steem and Hive
On August 1st of 2017 I started blogging on the Steem blockchain, since then I have been posting and curating almost daily for over more than 1000 days. I do my curation manually, daily, so that takes some time and effort to do it wisely and especially to pick out the posts you like. I also always upvote my own posts for 100 %, and in those last 4 years almost nobody has made a problem of that. Up until now... An account that was not familiar to me, @jelly13 has decided to downvote almost all my posts for a 100 % because he finds them "shitposts". So when I post on Sportstalk about the stage of the Giro d'Italia of that day, and give my opinion about it in about a 100 words, that is a shitpost. If I post a picture of my dining table with the wine and food I will have that night with my friends and post about it, that is called a shitpost... Well, I find that very peculiar, and wasn't aware I was doing something wrong, up untill now. And I am not planning on changing my behaviour. So if @jelly13 wants to be the Robin Hood around here, be my guest, but I have built my account from scratch, and am proud of that. And if he finds my posts shit, so be it. But maybe, @jelly13 should rethink about what he is doing, and reconsider his actions. Because, what is this place? A blogging platform, in my humble opinion, so what the fuck am I doing wrong?
Sincerely,
Pele23
It's a good question, and not the first time I've seen someone talking about it. I have never considered upvoting my own posts, and it's not something I would recommend anyone do. It seems like cheating on some level, and a full vote uses 2% of the voting power that could be rewarding others.
Having said that, I don't do much downvoting either. I try to be somewhat forgiving, but I have no patience for plagiarism and downright nastiness for its own sake. I'm curious now if your self-voting could be Jelly's reason for downvoting your posts... have you spoken to them about it (aside from this tag)? It could be that simple.
I really don’t think of it as cheating, as long as you keep on curating others too!
Well, I have started to tag you, because of your excessive downvoting... It's the other way around dude! And really, get a life!
Hmm... that's interesting. Can you explain why self-voting helps the other voters? I'm not sure I can wrap my head around this concept. I appreciate you chiming in. :)
This part confuses me. Do each of the individual votes increase as the total number of votes goes up?