You have some good thoughts and have obviously thought about this for some time so thank you for your input. Its definitely interesting concept but I'm just not sure complicating the voting system to this extreme would be beneficial to the community right now. Some have thought to just simply illuminate the self vote on comments all together which is simple enough. Use of voting power is another which Im sure I'm not the first to think up. Each self-vote would drain more Voting Power.. this however wouldn't lead to more votes for others but essentially less if the usr decided to self up vote anyway.