Today I ran on some article that after a minute had $27 worth of upvotes? It was strange that someone managed to read so quickly, understand the article and, of course, upvote it. I saw that the author upvote his own article.

I did a little research, noticed that a lot of people do it. For someone who have 5k SP or more this vote is quite high. Is it not abuse of the system for personal gain? I mean, there are no systems that will regulate this kind of self gain and nowhere is written anything that it is strictly forbidden. Looking from the moral point of view, I think it's bad for the community.

The greediness has ruined Steemit and it seems that this platform will not work unless we deal with such things right away!

High quality articles can not be viewed, because such articles can not be included in the Hot or Trending section because of people who self-vote their articles. Someone spent a lot of time researching and writing articles that really make sense and do not get rewarded for it. While someone can put a few sentences and an image, he upvote himself and gets $27. It looks like the big fish eating small fish here too, and that new authors are hardly able to success unless somehow Scorum regulates such things as self upvoting.

What do you think? Is it fair or not?