>By default when you post on Reddit you upvote your own content. It's not frowned upon and no one cares if you do so.

This is of course since there is no limit to upvoting on Reddit.

My train of thought on Steemit when upvoting has been to vote on your own content, but not comments (unless they really needed some visibility)

To be honest I would find it strange seeing someone vote on every comment of their own, when that voting power could be used to share with the rest of the community instead and connect with others at the same time. I also hope it doesn't give you Reputation points from voting on your own comments, as I think rep is directly correlated with your posting rewards...

I think we shouldn't be setting a block there. I don't upvote for my posts generally, and this should be general practice, but I think if we start *denying* stuff, we'd be opening a pandora's box in terms of censorship.

I think people should upvote their own posts, but should be selective about upvoting their own comments. 
I've seen plenty of users spam low value comments and upvote themselves with their voting trails..
That said, I don't think we should enforce any rules to stop it either as much as it annoys me ..

I stopped upvoting my posts a while ago in order to make more reward available to others.  I am fortunate to have a dolphin level stake and I wouldn't expect anyone below a dolphin to do the same.  It is in my interests to see steem distributed more widely but I am also just happy with my stake.  Ultimately the ability to choose should remain and with the acknowledgement that every situation is different.  If I was to produce a post that took a great deal of effort or I thought was very valuable to the community and needed maximum exposure, I might choose to upvote my own post.

Of course they should be able to.  Otherwise, they will create separate accounts to power up and vote versus writing.

I see it as akin to raising your voice. Sometimes it's appropriate, even necessary. Most of the time though it's a faux pas.

Since it can move your comment about in the visibility spectrum I believe you should be able to up vote your own posts.    When I first started here and read it was a good idea to up vote your own posts from some craig-rant tutorials I did it for awhile.    Then I learned about the fact we had a % of voting power that decreased with each vote.   I was very vocal at the time so up voting my posts significantly reduced my voting power.

I stopped up voting any of my comments or replies at that time so that my voting power would not be diluted by my own actions.    I will up vote my own blog post, and I don't see a problem with it.   I don't see a problem with people up voting their comments either, I just chose not to do so due to voting power dilution.   Now with the slider it'd be easy to up vote my comments again, but I really haven't begun to do that.

Why shouldn't you upvote your own posts?

You like your posts, don't you? So go ahead and upvote them :)

I have a feeling that we've had this discussion already, several months ago.

how much money are we talking about here?

Not to mention names, but the only ones who are of concern are whales. But they dont post often enough to actually be a problem. Plus, there posting reward would amount to only fraction of there daily curation reward.
I personally think upvoting your own stuff shouldnt be possible, or at most, only worth a "fairy fart" you speak of.
But ubtil it posses a problem, im not concerned. The whales are, for the most part, responsible users

We used to always upvote our posts 4 months ago! Then it all stopped when price dropped. 😊

Frowning never did anything good. Either just remove the upvote-button from the users own content, or let people vote for themselves.

I think I prefer the first option, remove the button. That way people can use one more vote for other things.

I believe that in most democracies the candidates can vote also, and vote for themselves, and the same in corporate boards. Really, you *should* vote on yourself, since you believe in you, right? Facebook is more of a meme replication system than a real social network in my opinion, and like you say, a like in facebook also has the value of unicorn faeces...

I rarely upvote my comments. It however happened when related to plagiarism or fraud to counteract in advance any potential frustrated downvote. 

Concerning my own blog posts, I have always upvoted them but the reason is that the box was checked by default.

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