Up voting your own posts and comments

Question

What do you think about when someone upvotes his/her own vote?
In my opinion this should not be necessary or possible.
Reasons are because I find it redundant. As if I need to say, “yes, I like my post”, and secondly it weakens the statement.

Interested in your thoughts now...

Answer 1

https://www.sololearn.com/discuss/702510/?ref=app

Answer 2

maybe all posts should automatically be initialized with a "+1Count"
by definition.

a "post" can only become one if the user "likes it"

like the way many programming languages begin Count from zero,
posts can start from =>+1

any ambiguity dissolves

Answer 3

--- "What do you think about when someone upvotes his/her own vote?"
I think they're confident in themselves and are giving themselves a pat on the back.

--- "In my opinion this should not be necessary or possible."
Don't worry, it's not necessary, but it is certainly possible.

--- "secondly it weakens the statement."
You were vague when you said that it weakens the statement. In what ways does it affect the information or do anything at all in regards to your statement? You're the only one that knows if you voted for yourself or not. If anything, it strengthens your statement because of how psychology and pack mentality works.

Overall, voting for most things doesn't bar the person who called the vote from voting, so by all means, vote for yourself if you wish to do so. It does nothing at all to affect others, and for many people, allows them to invest in themselves or express their confidence in themselves. Thankfully, it's optional, so you can choose to not vote for yourself and no one will tell you otherwise, only you will know.

However, my thought is that you feel it's people drawing attention to themselves, and you feel that maybe you're robbed of the attention you deserve because other people vote for themselves when you don't do that. Your best solution is to not be bothered by things that mean absolutely nothing at all in the grand scheme of things, controlling others so they meet up with your own standards, or simply vote for yourself and then none of the concerns matter either.

PS - I'm voting for myself. I think I took time to give you an appropriate response that this thread deserves. I was nice about it, and provided my full thoughts on my opinion. Just like when I write a program, when I'm done I look at it and will decide if I think I did a good job or not. If I think I did a good job, I'll smile and give a silent "Good job!" to myself. In that sense, I'm up voting myself.

Answer 4

I haven't done it but I really don't think it's a big deal. like @Netkos Ent says, it doesn't affect other people. Even if someone were trying to compete for the most upvotes, the amount of upvotes they would have to get would be in the hundreds or thousands, ( I'm not really sure what the top earners are getting on SoloLearn,) at that point one upvote doesn't really mean much.

I do like your idea that your code should be posted once you've upvoted it yourself though.