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RE: Do's and Don'ts on HIVE - a short Guide
Selfvotes are frowned upon on HIVE and will (sooner or later) result in getting downvotes.
Not really sure what the thought process here was but I'd say it depends a lot on the content and other activities of said account. It's usually easy to notice what the intentions are, i.e. if they're attempting to just maximize rewards it usually reflects in their other activities too, but if it's a few self-votes here and there I don't really think we're going to have people start downvoting them due to that. There's very few downvotes occurring in general if you exclude the brainless autotrail ones.
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The whole post came out from different conversations (again and again) in ecency discord, especially the use of photos, how to behave to not get in troubles with HW and so did the self vote topic. It is what I have been told, one should not do.
I see, there are different opinions and of course different usecases, but still think for newbies its the best to say: "better stay away"
For sure, I just don't think there should be a "threat" over them that if they self-vote they will eventually get downvoted as that sentence made it out to sound. It's in everyone's best interest to use their upvote mana to grow their influence here and curators should look at different activities of authors before curating since most of us here aren't that "valuable" in content in and of itself. (I.e. anyone can write what you and I write, we're replaceable), but what stands out is the social aspect, where genuine attention is being driven, history of the account, etc. If someone spends most of his mana on himself then it'll be their loss eventually and they should see their earnings weaken compared to those using their mana better. If they spend it on themselves constantly, such as comments, low effort posts, etc, then yeah expect some downvotes.
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I am curious as to how this self-voting thing works out when a person joins a curation trail and the curator votes on your post, resulting in you having voted for your post. How does that play out in the self-voting scenario? Thanks