I have no problem upvoting my own comments to get them above the noise on posts with a lot of comments. I also consider voting late to be better form than voting early, since I reward all my voters with curation instead of robbing the curation pool on my post.

Obviously, both of these things, when abused, are obnoxious and bad for the platform. But I don't believe they are bad acts in and of themselves.

I delegate a lot, in fact to some of the same projects you do. My stake is my business. But you can tell a lot about a person by what they do with their stake. Everything is public here on steem, as you know with the steemworld tool :)