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RE: The All in One Steemit Guide for Newbies and Minnows (Tutorials, Guides, Advice)

in #steemit7 years ago

Excellent Guide. I will be sharing this with everyone that we bring over. I do have one bit of disagreement though while reading through the guide and that has to do with self-voting. While I do think it's unfair to self-vote the comments, I see nothing wrong with self-voting the posts. Especially if one puts a ton of effort into writing a really good post. For minnows just starting out, that self-vote may be all they have in the beginning. I would see it as abuse if they were simply spamming with single pics or youtube videos. But if they put forth the effort, then why not a self-vote? If you invest a lot of money in Steem, then you are already bringing a lot to the community. If you put a lot of effort into a quality post, then you are brining even more. If you are upvoting others all the time, and only put up one post a day or just a few a week, you are still giving over 90% of your voting power to others. I don't have a problem with smakdownkitty downvoting the comment self-voters. But I don't think bots should be policing the upvotes for articles. I think that should be left to descrition of individual people if the member is abusing the system or if they are genuinely providing quality to the community.

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investing in steem is nice!

I understand your point of view and I agree to it. Self voting on posts is not unfair in many ways. Firstly, number of posts published daily by users is small. Self votes won't consume all the power on self.

If you go through comments section as well, I have shared a soft corner for self voting on posts. It's the comments which caused concern and all the policing is aimed at comments as well.

For me personally, self voting on comments is a no no. Self voting on posts is not unfair or dangerous. I stopped doing it for quite a while but then I realized it won't be bad to help myself a bit when I help a lot of people with my upvotes.

I think that's what it comes down to. A no-no to abuse it on comments, and then at discretion for the articles. Obviously if someone is doing a lot of spammy posts and not putting any effort into composing an article and then upvoting each one, and not upvoting others then I think that person needs to be called out by the community and downvoted.

Absolutely agreed. To create posts with no value just to self vote should not be tolerated.