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Good idea. Right now there is a .02 payout threshold so you would have been better off not upvoting yourself and voting for my blog post so you could maybe have gotten a tiny bit of curation instead of nothing for your self-upvote.

This reply is interesting. I have seen a few Steemians posting Posts entittled test1 and then replying to their own post test1, then self-upvoting both posts. I check on Steemnow and they seem to be getting rewards for this action. Are you saying they are losing out somehow by doing this? Let me see if I can walk through this and please correct me if I am wrong.
So if the upvote their post, they essentially get curation rewards for the post, say 25%, but since they are also the author, they get author rewards of 75%, so does this mean if the are the author and the upvoter that they get 100%? These test posts are not findable on google search, they seem to be under the radar, so no one but the author who upvotes, upvotes them. One Steemian has a who page of test1 and upvotes, but when you google him, you don't see any posts. So he or she has no competition for the curation reward and they upvote very soon in the 30 minute time frame, so I think this increases their author rewards.

Only low Steem power people lose out when they self upvote. Right now a vote less than .02 is worthless by itself. If you upvote someone at say 10% and that is a .01 upvote it is worthless if it is the only upvote.
The payout threshold is seperate from curation stuff. I was talking about the .02 payout threshold.

Like the vote I just made on your comment you should self upvote so you get paid. It could be less than .02. I forgot my vote power % was low. lol

Thanks for the information and the upvote.

yes as myserch stated anything below 0.02 is considered a dust vote and will not pay out to you at the 7 day payout date, it gets turned into dust and is swept under the steemit rug for noone to ever see again.
you can invest in a service like @dustsweeper to make sure you get paid on every upvote you get from people that have less than a 0.03 vote value.

Yes I understand. @mysearchisover had pointed that out to me when I wrote an article about making money for Newbies. I agree that dustsweeper is a very good investment.

I'll keep it in mind. I'm getting conflicting info and people trying to scam. Trying to figure it out but don't want to get taken advantage of either. Thanks for the info

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