I totally get your point but why are we trying to build this community if everyone just keeps upvoting themselves in here. I see this platform as a place where you can reward people, content and posts that you enjoy reading.
I’m willing to look past a selfvote if the comments itself is good and worthy of it, but 99% of the time it’s something very generic or outright spam. I hate that those are the comments that then hang in the top of my comment section.
I don’t want to go into the topic of who should make money here and how and with what effort, because it’s a whole other thing. But I would like to translate a Finnish proverb here: ”Even if you believe in yourself, you can still be a total shit”
I started from zero, just like everyone else in here, so I do not take kindly when people imply that I got my ”popularity” handed to me. I did not buy myself to this point, I worked for it.
I know a lot of people disagree with me, but I am only expressing my own opinion about the matter, and everyone else is allowed to do so, and act accordingly.
Ps. There is a reason we are allowed to flag too. It’s a disagreement about potential rewards, not a disagreement about an opinion.
That's a good question. There are many potential answers, but instead I'll ask another: why does still upvoting bother you with comments not but with other posts?
As for "even if you believe in yourself, you can still be a total shit.", I'm not sure what you're implying here. If it's that my (and others) value of our work is potentially "total shit" if it's not acknowledged by the upvote of others... I'm not even sure how to respond to something like that. Couldn't the same be true of someone successful?
Also, I did not imply that you got anything handed to you. Disagreement about potential rewards is fine... My issue is that you seem to have a problem with someone rewarding themselves at all.
I'll give a second answer to your question: because the way Steemit is currently organized there isn't enough attention to go around. Posts get little, comments get almost none. If you're not willing to correct this in your own comments section with your upvotes (and who could blame you), then why do you begrudge people who will rewards their effort and insight? Let's make the conversation about quality comments versus crap ones. Do you really rewards every comment (or post, for that matter) where you find quality? No. It simply isn't possible.
You make good content. It's a shame we seem to have a hard disagreement over what the worth of someone who contributes to the culture of that content is.