I personally don't mind self-upvoting as long as the comments have value. At the end of the day what maters is the quality. I do hate irrelevant comments and repeated spamming. I was really sick of it and after writing an entire post about it, I was checking my own tags and stumbled upon this. Glad to see you guys doing your best to preserve the quality of steemit.
Thank you and good luck!
Hmmm, I'm personally unsure about this. I do sometimes self-vote my comment to the top when I see there's 60 more people and I really really have something to say to an author that I know doesn't read every single comment on their thread.
But I've seen some who arrive 8 hours later and just post a few marketing quotes and boop, attention boost.
This is the reason I said I don't mind. Almost anything can be used for good or bad. Bitcoin/Monero does fund assassinations and other crimes. But they can also be used as tools to empower people. It's about the way you use them.