To selfvote or not to selfvote?
Almost 4 years on Steem and Hive
On August 1st of 2017 I started blogging on the Steem blockchain, since then I have been posting and curating almost daily for over more than 1000 days. I do my curation manually, daily, so that takes some time and effort to do it wisely and especially to pick out the posts you like. I also always upvote my own posts for 100 %, and in those last 4 years almost nobody has made a problem of that. Up until now... An account that was not familiar to me, @jelly13 has decided to downvote almost all my posts for a 100 % because he finds them "shitposts". So when I post on Sportstalk about the stage of the Giro d'Italia of that day, and give my opinion about it in about a 100 words, that is a shitpost. If I post a picture of my dining table with the wine and food I will have that night with my friends and post about it, that is called a shitpost... Well, I find that very peculiar, and wasn't aware I was doing something wrong, up untill now. And I am not planning on changing my behaviour. So if @jelly13 wants to be the Robin Hood around here, be my guest, but I have built my account from scratch, and am proud of that. And if he finds my posts shit, so be it. But maybe, @jelly13 should rethink about what he is doing, and reconsider his actions. Because, what is this place? A blogging platform, in my humble opinion, so what the fuck am I doing wrong?
Sincerely,
Pele23
It's a good question, and not the first time I've seen someone talking about it. I have never considered upvoting my own posts, and it's not something I would recommend anyone do. It seems like cheating on some level, and a full vote uses 2% of the voting power that could be rewarding others.
Having said that, I don't do much downvoting either. I try to be somewhat forgiving, but I have no patience for plagiarism and downright nastiness for its own sake. I'm curious now if your self-voting could be Jelly's reason for downvoting your posts... have you spoken to them about it (aside from this tag)? It could be that simple.
I really don’t think of it as cheating, as long as you keep on curating others too!
Quick Google search tells pele23 is a famous and successful photographer whose recent dinner has been shot from various angles and spread all across the internet by now.
OK, enough joking.
I have zero personal problems posting either unsourced pictures (that now turned into an open deliberate plagiarism by the above claim), the chary tag abuse (stopped by now), the excessive self-voting (every post) or lying about engagement.
The only issue I have a problem with is that this account decided to follow me and excessively tag me. I am fine with the decision to seek more exposure to the subject from general public by making the post but I do not appreciate any attempt at personal attacks which is the standard practice among people who start their defence with "You are the first to disagree with what I am doing" (which effectively confirms they know they are bad actors and ridiculing the opponent is their best shot).
Get a life!
Well, I have started to tag you, because of your excessive downvoting... It's the other way around dude! And really, get a life!
Its your votes, you do with them what you want.
Self-voting also rewards all the people that voted before you (in curation rewards), I almost always self-vote since 2016.
Plagiarism and other evil stuff like that, should be downvoted tho.
Hmm... that's interesting. Can you explain why self-voting helps the other voters? I'm not sure I can wrap my head around this concept. I appreciate you chiming in. :)
Its called curation rewards. So lets say you have LASSECASH POWER (the more the more rewards) and you upvote this post:
https://www.lassecash.com/lassecash/@lasseehlers/these-coins-will-prevail-the-coming-beer-market
Before me, then you get a bigger curation rewards. I usually vote after 24 hours after posting, but it varies some days.
There is a lot of MATH involved, but think of it as a finders fee. Does that make sense?
This part confuses me. Do each of the individual votes increase as the total number of votes goes up?
A portion of the reward on a post goes to curation rewards, that is split between the upvotes accordingly to when you vote, probably more reward being in the middle, but its complicated math and it varies for hive versus each tribe...
But you can try it in practice, when you have LASSECASH POWER (you just got 600 LASSECASH on your first comment, see it here:
https://www.lassecash.com/hive-174578/@pele23/to-selfvote-or-not-to-selfvote )
By upvoting before me and look in your wallet/account how much you made after 7 days.
Same goes for downvotes.
You can even drop insults whenever you want. You probably have a good reason for that.
You make no sense dude, get some help!
yeah self-voting has been the name of the game since 2016. He has no power on your LasseCash rewards.
The illustration is funny but stupid, when most have been self-voting for 5 years, also whales.