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Isn't upvoting your own post different? I always assumed that upvoting your own posts doesn't pay you, in which case it's perfectly fine

Upvoting your own post does pay you

It does?? That's absurd!
That just makes this an even bigger problem...

Someone more versed in Steemit needs to answer that one. I believed that if my vote gives someone 5c, then if I upvote my post I also get 5c. Otherwise what is the point of having reputation and steem power?