Self voting may be justified in some cases. I'm only really using it when I get flagged to make my posts visible again, if I can. I had expected H to retaliate as I had given him some small flags. I cannot seriously dent what he makes, so it was more of a protest. I've seen him flag others to negative rep for daring to criticise him. I may have erred by voting up a meme that could be considered racist, but I thought it was satirical. Anyway, his response was disproportionate. He tried to scare me away. I definitely won't leave steemit, especially after the amazing response I had from the community. There are lots of cool people here. The freedom we have allows for abusing the system and its up to us to deal with that.

Thanks for your support. I hope mentioning H does not get you flagged.