I agree with you about upvoting in situation #1 and #2. I think a lot of poeple feel that Comment self voting is were the abuse starts, but I think like you said if it's simple to bump your comment and you vote a reasonable amount just to bump it then it's fine. I think people that drop votes on every single comment they make it abusive.
It's easy enough to check steem reports and see how much self voting is happening. For me 10% is the reasonable level and anything more starts to look abusive.
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I think we're of similar mind here. 10% would be great but I think once people start to hit 50+% then it looks like blatant abuse. My logic is that it's hard to add value (via a comment) to a post without any value so at minimum people should be upvoting the original post as much as their comment. At 50% self-vote it is probably about the same ROI as some of the lease rates or bid bot returns (where there is no engagement) and so at least there is "some" engagement if 50% of the VP is going to others.