You are totally right. This is something I noticed very quickly when I joined Steemit. But up to this week no one seemed to notice it or post anything about it.
But the statistics already show for a long time that hundred thousands of people joined Steem in the past year. And almost all of them are inactive. I can't calculate the exact number as I don't know how many users there were last year?
I think tipping bots are overrated. Nowadays over 1,000 Steemonians use them daily. So what does it help? Nothing cause I won't notice you between those 1,000+. And I fully ignore trending and hot.
As newbie I really don't understand that it is possible to upvote yourself. My suggestion would be to fully skip that possibility.
Last but not least, I think there are many more changes needed. Like getting rid off all kind of scams and frauds, stopping the greatest flagging war in history, bandwidth issues for new users and more like that.
Self upvoting is good and necessary because if you have invested money in Steemit and you have locked your Steem then you should be rewarded for that.
This might actually be the best explanation I have heard so far.
I still wonder if it's fair. Cause if you didn't invest, but started 1 year ago, then you probably have some SP now. As the rewards back then were about 30-40 times as high as now. People who have this can now really post crap, upvote their own crap and get rewarded for it. And the majority of new users could never get closer to the amount of rewards those crappy self upvoters receive (Sorry for my language, but I couldn't figure out a decent way to explain what I mean).
Your solution seems to be fair. Cause I agree that investors should get some return.
I guess we're still nowhere with me agreeing with you. As this probably won't get implemented ever.....
I have also thought about idea with block possibility to upvote yourself. It's so strange to a newbie (for me it is). @cicbar, sorry for my question, but if somebody invested in Steem and got some extra SP isn't that a reward? He spent his money to be stronger, thought that how it works