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How do you feel about people upvoting their own posts? (kbin.social)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I always thought it was a pretty smart idea on Reddit's side to have the posts and comments be automatically upvoted by their author, saving them the tough choice between playing fair or boosting their initial reach a little; and if you had particularly low self-esteem, this enabled you to reduce your own points by not one, but two, by self-downvoting.
Here, both upvotes and downvotes (or rather, favourites and reduces) start at 0, and you have the option to upvote your post manually (which I've already seen some people do) - which, while currently does not increase your reputation, does give you that small initial boost by making it look like people are starting to engage with your post.

What do you think - should the posts and comments be automatically upvoted by the author? If not, are you fine with people upvoting themselves, or do you feel it's unfair towards the ones that don't do it?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I liked reddit's approach. Self upvoting your posts if they aren't upvoted feels ridiculous. (ok, I have upvoted 1-2 of mine when trying to figure out how it works, but it still feels ridiculous)

So I would prefer if they are already pre-upvoted, or you should not be allowed to vote your posts/comments

[–] SpaceNoodle 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used to downvote myself if my comment was shown to be egregiously wrong as some sort of masochistic exercise.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

you can go to the next level and next time try blocking yourself!