Exactly, you can be selfish to a degree, but you should be able to keep paying it forward as well.

yes, don't only jerk yourself and your friends off, but also remember to help your fellow steemians. there's enough love to go around people! it's the only way we can grow as a community.

Thank for your support of my post about this topic. Some people got a little bit too excited upvoting themselves in comments as if it is expected behavior. Unfortunately this is not the point I was trying to make.

Only upvoting yourself is very inclusive. This is social environment there you can actually benefit from connections to others.

Exactly this. If you want steemit to work, you have to work it and that means doing more than just using your votes on yourself. You have to spread the love and get this economy working. Buying steem and steem power are also good, healthy inputs into the steemit economy. 

This is so much bigger than just another website to post lunch photos on. Cryptocurrency and the block chain / smart contract / decentralized exchange of goods and services and compensation concepts are a new way to do business, and a new way to use "currency" and a new paradigm in economics. 

Folks who don't take a few minutes to understand what we are doing on steemit will end up just being the "consumers" in this economy, but those who publish and interact and vote wisely and buy and sell STEEM and bring new spends into the economy by buying steem and steem power and participating actively in all things related to the eco-system will be the market makers, movers and shakers and ultimately the steemit whales and tycoons.

If you could go back in time, to the beginnings of the US Dollar. Would you rather become an innovative, highly contributing wealth creator, like say Andrew Carnegie or Henry Ford or do you want to end up just being a basic consumer who sort of let it all pass them by only to end up working all day for peanuts?

The difference is in the balance of selfishness and selflessness that you apply to the endeavor.

So by all means, vote for yourselves and your friends. But if you exclude everyone else, then @sean-king is right, you have only set yourself up to be excluded by everyone else.

#LetThatSinkIn

We are all in this together. If you work only for yourself, this place won't last very long. If we work to promote others, and earn the value of promotion BY others for ourselves, we will get MUCH further as a whole towards helping steemit and steem achieve the momentum and attraction they need to take over the world!

![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmZzwGadvzp1SPbdKerwYSYPmPNBSMogaofKAVSCyd3f12/image.png)

Thanks very true @sean-king we are a team supporting each other is important.
on that note check out the steemit project we are embarking on in Zimbabwe https://steemit.com/steemit/@tinashe/steemit-future-in-africa-zimbabwe-going-viral
Thank you

True, you should upvote newbies, they will follow you and when will grow will upvote you back.

**Long term mindset**

but but I don't have any friends 😟🙁☹😭
Or do I ?🤔

This concise principle will continue to make steem valuable and steemit a great community for a long time.  Thanks for voicing it so clearly Sean.

That is absolutely true dear steemit fellow. Upvote for yourself and your friends make steemit wonderful platform.

can't buy
but i **spread the juice** as much as possible ^^
it's melonjuice :-)
everybody likes melonjuice haha

Thank you very much @sean-king .Your support is very important to us ,i would ask if you would be our mentor on this ,it will be great to have some one ,our community will look upto to  as a source of inspiration and support

I agree fully with cork, in fact I posted yesterday something similar. [Follow the Rules](https://steemit.com/minnowsupport/@qwasert/learning-the-rules-for-upvote-resteem-and-comment) post

Sometimes I go through my comments, and if one was popular and is about to pay out, I'll upvote it so that it turns into added SP within 24 hours.  My intent is to make the majority of my upvotes, which go to other users, worth a little bit more.  I'm not sure if this is a) actually effective, or b) an asshole move?

True true true! Let's make some teamwork here! 👍👍👍

I upvote every article that I stumble upon which has a good content and I am also hoping for others to do the same as well.

Great post...

Definitely right sir.

Haha, I'd like to  Upvote myself.

Hey pall ;)

What's really bugging me is the rampant self comment voting going on. 

I've been trying to be a good example and resist the urge to do it, but there are a lot of greedy people on here draining the reward pool through self votes on useless comments.

**How would you feel if I gave myself a vote like this, 10 times every day ?**

`I'll remove this vote within a day, its just to illustrate a point`

Spread the love around with a mindset of abundance.

Hey @sean-king, how much do you suggest we buy vs how much we should earn? I went to Power Up yesterday and STEEM suggested I deposit 20 BTC!

Short and sweet...all you needed to say. Love this!

Thank god i was worried :)

What a shit post. This is a perfect example of people merely commenting and upvoting for curation and a whale making even more SP

I am new, and I still don't understand how this all works. I mean the upvote yourself box is checked by default - that's kind of suggesting? I wish there was a manual of the best practices in upvoting. Is there one? I'd be happy to read it!

Exactly! Thats what i mean.

Excellent little nuggets of wisdom there Sean. I aim to split my daily takings 50/50 between myself and others. At the moment it's 70/30 as I start to recover my voting power back to 100% - currently it's 45%!! :(

Yes Thankyou .. It is as simple as that !

And, I'd point out, the fact that @sean-king *didn't* vote on this post makes me respect him immensely more.

Keep that in mind as you're deciding whether to vote on your own comments: the community will likely esteem people who refrain from self voting.

I agree!

yah you're right 😃