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I sit on my hand and upvote my comments/posts with a numb hand so it doesn't feel like I'm the one doing it.

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

Upvoting myself feels weird, but it feels like something I might have to do to help my posts gain traction, especially if everyone else is gonna do it. Reddit had it right, should just be the default.

"As reddit user begin to learn and appreciate their new habitats, we see some have already found usage of existing systems to pat themselves on the back. While not unexpected, how quickly, and efficiently they have done so is really remarkable. This digital nature relocation of the Reddit population truly has been fascinating"

Updoots self nothing to see here, guys.

I don't think people should be able to vote on their own posts. It's meaningless. It doesn't matter if everyone starts from 0 or +1 or whatever.

I don't think it matters if users upvote their own stuff or not, however I don't think users should be given the choice. It should either be users always upvote their own stuff, or users can't upvote their own stuff.

Don't really care cause in reddit, there was auto upvotes, so I can see for some people upvoting themselves makes it easier for the migration. I personally don't upvote myself, but I get wanting to make a new experience familiar.

I dont really care much for karma/reputation. I apreciate a reply more than the votes and I think the way it was done in reddit, used as a dislike/like button is wrong when it should have been a self moderating tool to filter the true, constructive discussions and conversations from trolls, meaningless and off-topic stuff.

For example. I used to browse a lot of r/horror and r/movies and it was impossible to have a conversation about the quality and merits of a movie. If the movie was popular enough, every comment disliking or criticizing it, no matter how well written it was or how valid their arguments might have been was downvoted to oblivion while some banal comment like "Shut up! Its a masterpiece" was top comment with hundreds of upvotes. The opposite happened if the topic was widely disliked.
Then comments and replies just becomes into a popularity contest and not about engaging with the communities.

That being said, I wont judge anyone who upvotes or boosts their contributions, you do you. And as this site grows it might even be needed to get an extra bit of visibility for new contributions.

It was quite a smart choice.

But another way to do things could also be to disallow users to upvote their own content. Either by disabling the button, or just silently ignoring it.

One is probably more to avoid user to complain they can't do it. The other more logical at a dry level

I think Reddit's vote system was pretty near perfect, especially in the early days. You should upvote your own posts by default. I also prefer having a combined "score" rather than different scores for upvotes and downvotes.

Oh, and can we get a "sort by top" for comments? I miss that from Reddit.

I generally believe in myself, so I'd upvote me, if I weren't so lazy. Reddit helped me with it.

Not fussed either way, if someone wants the little boost from the initial +1 they see from their own upvote, more power to them.
I'm happy starting at zero and seeing where the community takes me.