When I joined scorum few weeks ago, scorum was engineered to reward self-voting comments but a sudden stigma was placed on it when a user bought some stake and started upvoting his comments to over 1000$+. The community felt this would corrupt the system and they pushed back and the user got his upvotes negated via flags.
When you check a platform like steemit, you will see that one of the reasons why some people aren't getting upvotes on their posts is not because they don't dish out good content but because upvotes aren't going round. That people are allowed to upvote their comments without limit is one of the reasons why some people are suffering on steemit today.
One could make a comment saying "nice one" and could easily make it a top seen comment despite a minnow having a better thought out comment. Many will agree with me that this is very discouraging to the newbies to see a simple comment making a ton of dollars while their own comment make nothing.
When self-voting comment feature was disabled few weeks ago, some people expressed their dissatisfaction towards it but I didn't. I felt the intent for disabling self-vote comment is to encourage good comment and prevent some set of people from being greedy. We can't survive alone with the help of other people. We need one another's upvotes to earn well.
Now the question is, do you think self-voting comments is a progress or drawback to the platform?
I want to hear your opinion, guys!
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