The criticism regarding self upvoting on the part of some whales is that they do so on trash posting. They post memes and upvote themselves, or they make worthless comments and upvote themselves that way. Sometimes they upvote each other's trash. Of course, the worst of the worst are those with double and triple figure upvoting power. The key word in all of this is trash.
I'm talking about upvoting quality content, and I'm even more in favor if that quality content is your own.
There's a huge difference.
And, let's remember to not make a blanket observation: it's a select minority whales that I think is getting smaller and smaller the more they realize the long term damage they're doing.
Thanks for bringing it up again. It's an issue that I think we should keep in the forefront.
I am all for upvoting quality content. Just a bit concerned. I just saw a post by someone on how to keep all the money to yourself. Just think that kind of thinking is the end to a social platform and probably to quality content as well....
And yes, I didn't mean to imply that all of any group do this - I really wouldn't know and it is never fair to say that all of any given group do the same. That is prejudice, right?