If this is an issue, then I think people are just taking everything too seriously. Just have fun and stop stressing out if someone who has tons of SP votes for their own content. If they accrued that, then let them do what they want. Same thing with Powering Down. It's totally fine for someone to want to pull some money out to trade other assets, go on a vacation, or whatever else they want to do. I think people are just hating because they don't understand why someone is getting $10 or whatever for their own upvote when they are getting practically nothing. If you have a lot of SP wrapped up in your wallet and that means that you get large payouts for your influence then so be it. No one is forcing you to use this system and I doubt that self-voting is going anywhere anytime soon, but that's just my 2 cents.