I've been guilty of it myself. It is certainly satisfy to see yourself earning by literally voting for yourself. Ask yourself is it more satisfy to vote for yourself or receive a vote from a stranger. It is extremely annoying to see posts on your Blog that look like this....
These comments both voted for their own comments and not the blog they commented on!!
That doesn't send a good message to others that notice and certainly irritates the writer of the blog.
You won't get all the votes back but if you hoard them they won't come back at all.
But The most important reason you should save your votes and voting power for others is YOUR REPUTATION!
An upvote from someone else increases your reputation, a vote from yourself doesn't.
From now on, My votes (other than the mandatory blog vote) are reserved for others
Thanks.....Vote, Comment, 
But then, why would anyone buy steem to increase their voting power? There has to be some return on investment.
My strategy is to save a number of votes for myself and divide the rest up into 5% or 10% votes for posts and comments. If something is very good it can be anything up to 100%.
I am tending more and more to agree that the new system is somewhat skewed at the moment, but it is what it is.
If your vote is worth $8 how many people are going to want your votes...That's where the return comes in. and it still annoy's others to vote for yourself
"That's where the return comes in" - can you explain this more fully? Are you saying that people with low value votes are worthless?
So, how much money have you invested in steem, and why do you upvote your own posts?
I didn't totally understand how the more vested accounts worked. Your way makes sense for whales, My way makes sense for minnows
nice sharing!
Thanks man, I believe it is sound advice
Whoopsie. I am new here and just did this. Now going back over my posts and undoing. Thanks!
Lots of us are new here...haha
Totally agree with you.