Commenting is such a great thing to do. It's good for you and good for the platform.
As far as self voting is concerned, upvoting your own posts is not a problem and you can do that as long as you are not posting too many times a day. Majority of your upvotes should go to others' content (posts and comments). You do not need to be afraid as long as you are not abusing your Steem Power to deplete reward system only for yourself.
Thank you,,, and my point is made again here,,, I earned more off of that comment that I do off of 3 or 4 good posts in my blog...... I kinda think we should NOT earn for upvotes (or flags),,, they should just be to promote (or discourage) the type of content we want to see,,, and the rewards should go only to authors,,, JMHO as of so far.
It would make Steemit life hell for newbies. Comments are there to stay on authors' posts and their replies tab. They can see them and reply to them. And they can upvote them to bring more valuable comments at the top for more visibility. I support upvotes on comments. I think it is a wonderful way of ensuring healthy interaction.
Just my opinion and it's great to look at things differently.
Yes, I totally agree,,, upvoting comments is good,,, i'm just don't think the "curration" rewards (going back to the upvoter as opposed to the commenter or author) are serving the system.