Automating Upvotes using HiveVote and The Idea of Self Vote

HiveVote

Found out about HiveVote from this Rising Star post. How this works is you follow a curator using the curator trail menu and you automatically upvote the post they just upvoted. It is like a copy service for upvotes. You just need to set the parameter and let it do the rest. The link from above has some nice explanation about the settings. Please also make sure the curator you're following does not upvote low quality posts.

This can also work for someone you follow, upvote their post as soon at it is published. I like this service compared to delegation as the Hive Power is still on your account so replenishment of resource credit is never an issue for me. HiveVote have other things it can do but I think these two are the most useful. Thank you @mahdiyari, you made my life easier.

Self Vote

While looking through HiveVote's dashboard, I noticed the SelfVote option and it is set to true as default. I am not familiar if this is an oversight or what since there are a few unwritten rules on Hive. Found this post by @bozz where he asks for the unwritten rules and collated it. From this, it looks like self voting is an accepted practice as long as you don't upvote your own comment.

Self Vote Statistics

My curiousity piqued, I used HiveSQL to find out how many authors upvoted their own post.

Below is the number of authors who self voted their own post at least once. Based on this, it looks like less and less author are self voting their own post.

How about you? What's your take on self voting on own post? Let me know in the comments.

Thank you for reading.

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