I dislike self-voting as well but @done (aka @htooms) also self-votes with his numerous alts. I haven't really figured out the core of this dispute just yet but, if you see my comment above, that is what I hope we can flesh out.

Did the guy reword his previously published work for rewards? If we allow that sort of thing to be rewarded highly, we're just going to get every author that has written a book to just reword it and post to extract relatively easy shares of the reward pool?

It takes more effort to actually come up with some new shit and think that's what we should be oriented to rewarding. Is that what the author actually did or not???