The 10x self upvote rule I use is mainly a way to calculate what something is worth. You do have a valid point that potential falgs are not into the probabilities, this is mainly an issue with bigger accounts and even those have plenty of way to do indirect self-upvoting (circel jerk upvote for upvote)
I do appreciate @qurator and what it's doing and there is a huge need for projects like this that allow real bloggers to blog regardless if their subject of interest is popular on steemt and get some guaranteed daily upvotes for it. It would be nice to see some support and delegation from the devs to @qurator you guys would really deserve that and it would highly benefit the steemit platform with all the members that are being carried