Well, it's an important question. I'm not trying to corner you in any way.
I like to start addressing it with a question I'm sure we should be agree with like "should someone who only adds a period in their article receive $100 Hive"? I think we'd both agree they should not receive that amount. They shouldn't receive anything.
Should someone with high VP self-vote their posts at 100% even once?
Well, to answer this question, we should look at it this way? , is it wrong for someone to upvote his post? , I don't think so.
Is it wrong for one to continuously upvote his post?, this is where the answer seems to be difficult.
Again, is it encouraged that friend upvote his other posts respective of the quality of the content?
It isn't wrong, unless it becomes excessive. It seems to hove around 9-10% of acceptability. Outside of that and downvotes typically occur throughout Hive. VYB won't allow self-votes to occur.
The same reasoning as above applies.
Ok, and the third question?
Are you still referring to self-votes? If that is the case, then no, it is not encouraged in the VYB tribe. The founder doesn't want any self-voting.
I mean Mr. A who happens to be friends with Mr B upvotes MR. B poor quality post simply because he wants to give monetary reward to a friend, caring little about the poor content the friend made, and with a hope of receiving same measure on his posts irrespective of the quality.
So, we move from a period of clear agreement towards an area of gray. In other words we're discussing something much more subjective here.
No one would begrudge Mr. A wanting to give a hand-out to the friend, but like self-voting, there's a limit to what the Hive community will tolerate. I'm not sure about the %VP on this one as it varies.
Mr. A has other options, however, in how he could help out Mr. B, yes?
There are a lot of options out there that doesn't involve voting. If "irrespective of quality" is an area someone wants to operate under, then it's going to cause a problem for Mr. A. People forgive occasional lapses, but their patience will run out when it starts affecting the community.
You just nailed it here. This is what I want to point out, and am glad we alive here through the series of questions and clarifications. Thanks Sir for the time.