I hear you but technically speaking, it does cost you! You should check this post out and see how much some people have been "earning" by self-upvoting. Like @ausbitbank was saying in his post, there are some people who are raping the system through self-upvoting. And I'm not sure if the bot-makers live in third-world countries! And even if they do, they have some good programming skills so they can get a good job. Not everyone can make a commenting bot for steemit!
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Oh, I didn't know. I don't self-upvote unless I want my comment to go to the top so the author sees it, because I want their take on my idea or something. And of course to boost my posts in the site listings. It looks like that's enough to put me on that list, however.
The ones I'm thinking of speak broken English, often have selfies for their avatars which show they are clearly Indian or Arabic, and have names typical of those regions. But of course there are Westerners who do this too. Maybe it's just confirmation bias, and I'm only remembering the ones that were funny to me because of their mangled Engrish.
Fair enough but let's not forget that we have many refugees and/or immigrants living in the West who can't speak proper English! :P
And furthermore, you might not recognize the ones with good English, because their bots are obsequious, but more subtly so. Like, "Ha!" on a post in "funny" is probably a good bet. Sometimes I want to write that because my voting power is low, but I have nothing to add to the conversation, and I just want the author to know I liked their joke. It's rough, yo.
Wow, I guess it never occurred to me that self upvoting was even a thing. That would feel too much like patting myself on the back and buying myself a coke for making an argument that I agree with and saying "Awesome job bro! Keep it up!"
Though I can see some instances where using it as a form of 'influence' could be used for a good reason.