Interesting... I think we need to start to encourage people to curate quality content.
Authors, however, must undertake to respect their curators in two steps:
Don't upvote their own post within the first minutes after publishing a post, but at least they wait till that was 30 minutes;
They are free to use bid bots, but wait at least an hour after you publishing a post.
For example:
.....not a good thing.
what do you think? I once did a POST on it.
That is an example of a system change you can recommend. Self-voting is one discussion but I would say the author should get the bot money as they are the ones who paid for it.
That's a good point, @whatageek. I'd like to reflect on this.. Thanks for your answer.
Thank you for the respectful response :)
I'm not here to pick a fight or to judge.. I like to get all points of view. ;-)