This is a tough task to set such "exceptions".
Sometimes a 2 line post can bring more value to the audience, than a 5000 word post.
In general I am not against a selfvoting as a such.
I am talking about the amount, the quantity, percentage of them.
If somebody places 500-1000 votes in a 1 week time, I would have no problem seeing him making 3 or 4 selfvotes (in the same 7 days).
We should, first of all, talk about voting power percentage, not the vote numerical quantities.
If somebody spends 1-2% of his voting power on himself - I would see absolutely NO PROBLEM about that. I would do this myself, and would start this today.
The problems comes, when we see 10%, 15% or even 26% of voting power spend exclusively on selfish tasks ( be it open, or hidden as "on a foamily members".
People have eyes, they see everything, and such behaviors has a damaging effect to the growth of the community.
This is a place where I see this "voting" problem
Indeed, there is a problem and I have not a patent solution other than downvoting explicit reward pool rapers. But I spend my time rather with upvoting good content than finding out who might be overdoing his self voting.
Me to, I do not spend my time specially looking for abusers. This one I came across, when found one day the whole POB market supply was cleaned-up, up to the last POB coin. Then I looked closer, who is this "smart" guy, who completely neglects the price slippage. It does not look very SMART at all in my eyes.
And then I found his voting pattern.
Which was much much worse than I have ever seen in my FIVE active years on Hive/Steem
Probably on par with haejin and ranchorelaxo
to be fair, you began downvoting me BEFORE I ever cleared the PoB market sell orders... and you were actually the one that told me how much HIVE I needed to do so lol thanks for that by the way ✌🏼, I truly didn’t care about the slippage, I was on a mission to clear the market, just seemed like a fun thing to do (in the long run I see PoB worth more than 10 HIVE a pop and I’m here for the long run anyways)
Now I see why he is mad, maybe I should match you and buy up to 10
I’m sure the market would be happy about that!
I have to admit, watching you buy all that made me want more, lol I was selling, but now I see it's cool to have 40k POB lol