Comment abuse is an epidemic here
I don't think self upvoting your own comment for 2 dollars to say two words is right.
I dont care about my reputation score anymore and I am going to point out this flagrant abuse, make a list and post it , and hopefully shame away comment abuse. Maybe rent out some sp just to downvote. I plan on using every spam reporting system available on here.
It's lazy as fuck to upvote your own comments, go and write ten blogs a day. Making a minimal comment and self upvoting it full strength is an insult to everyone here. I don't care if your vote is 2 dollars, your comment isn't worth two dollars. Go learn to curate with that upvote. Self upvotes of comments is draining the rewards pool. How does a fat upvote to your comment, by you, help this platform in any way? If your comment is great other people will upvote it.
I understand if you had something you wanted to be first comment on a blog, im talking about serial comment self upvoting, people who upvote all their own comments at full strength its sick and needs to stop
I agree with you. I once left a lengthy , well-constructed comment on a well-known user's post. He upvoted my comment with 3 cents. He replied to my comment with a single word and upvoted his own comment with 60 cents.
I then browsed all his other comments and noticed he was doing that on every one of his short, meaningless comments. I asked him why he was doing this but he did not reply.
Great attitude about self-voting, keep it up! I understand your frustration. However, consider your means and options. Exposure and flags are often seen as an attack - how many of them will change their behavior based on that, esp. if you have less SP? You could say, at least they're not voting on themselves if they're flagging you, but is this worth it? Making others see the bigger picture from showing/educating may be more difficult but probably more successful. And you'll certainly make more friends than with flags :)