@gmichelbkk - Your post really hit my heart that always in my head of "Self Upvote".
I used to act the same like you of self upvote on my own post once publish. All of my posts are in Thai language so I summary in English and post in comment and upvote as need to pin it for attention.
Now over 3 months that I stop my selfupvote both on post and comment. And try to figure out the answer from the community.
If it is the problem, I rather suggest the develop team to remove the selfupvote button. Would be great to learn from the community's thought.
@andyjim, thank you for giving your strategy for upvotes and also showing your graph. I don't think there is a right or wrong, but people get jealous when seeing posts that have an upvote of $50+ without considering that the user has invested hundred of thousands of dollars in the platform. I agree that the only thing to do to stop things that are potentially wrong is to do it technically, end of the story. I have upvoted this comment 100%.