#### Crypto is very simple.
These are permissionless networks. 
You can either do something, or you can't. 
You don't run around asking community members pretty please act a certain way. 
These systems are going to scale using altruism tactics. 

It is ridiculous to ask people not to upvote themselves.  
There's no KYC. 
What stops me from sending my VYB tokens to an anon account and upvoting 10 of my own comments/posts every single day and not sharing with anyone whatsoever?  I will tell you what stops someone from doing that: nothing. I don't do that because that's a super lame thing to do. But I guarantee you other people are. 

>All they ask is that you avoid using the vyb tag when you want to do so.

"They" aren't asking.  
You are asking. 

>when you want to do so.

I value my own work so I'm going to upvote my own work. 
So what you are really asking me to do is never tag VYB.  
I decline that request. 

>create unnecessary scenes

Point to which part of this "scene" was unnecessary. 
Seems like a perfectly necessary conversation to have. 
Which is why I am having it. 
Otherwise I'd of just ignored you and saved myself like 10 minutes, yeah?