Hopefully we can learn some things from this hack that might keep us safe. You're right, better it happened now than later, when there's so much more money on the line.

As for self upvoting, some posts take a very long time to create with high quality content. Everybody's time in not free, much less cheap. So one day I hope to be able to upvote my own posts, hopefully with more than .02 plankton cash. 😂