Before Hive, I saw a lot of this. Back when many of us were on Steem, self upvoting comments was common, so was buying upvotes. But much has changed since 2020 and before Hive came into existence. Other such things discussed were double posting on Hive and Steem at the time of the fork. And plagiarism / copy pastes was taken more seriously as the formation of Hive was happening.
Do I dare push the button?
Around this time of March 2020, I remember many talks about what was no longer acceptable. You could no longer pay your way into trending, and getting attention required a much more grassroots approach. One of the behaviors I recall deemed no longer acceptable was self upvoting your own comments.
Many have adjusted their strategies by moving funds to another account and upvote themselves that way. Though with blockchain forensics and looking at details such as memo fields on withdraws to those people can be figured out as well.
So my question is, on Hive is it okay to upvote your own comments?
I say no, you should take that vote and share it with someone else and not on yourself. The same could be said about upvoting your own posts, but today that is not the discussion I want to have. We are talking about specially upvoting your own comments directly or by proxy. Is that okay?
Lets see how the community feels four years later.