I have to admit I have the same thoughts as I have grown my account and taken similar approaches. I don’t feel that we need to be at 100k to do some of these either. I just completed my first month with no self votes and have found that I got more support and thus did not lose out for making that choice. The only thing I would add is that I would use any extra SP above 100k to delegate to value creating projects.
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That's awesome. I know there are several users out there doing the same with no self-votes and I appreciate that. Personally though, at this moment, I don't feel like I'm in a position to get more support by reducing my self-vote percentage. On the other hand, you can't really know until you have tried.
This is not generally speaking, but I've also seen a bunch of people "promoting" their "no self-vote for 30 days" or whatever and get more support by doing that, but they spend a ton of money on bid bots...
I can't understand that. It feels weird to me. And I'm not talking about those minor votes people buy just to get a little extra something on their articles, I'm talking about people buying votes for hundreds of Steem. I can't see the logic there. You either self-vote or not. That's a fact. But why talk about how "awesome you are" because you don't self-vote, meanwhile you buy votes for hundreds of Steem?
We obviously don't need 100K to do things, there are many things one can do with far less SP than that, and I personally believe that I have "something going on" so to speak, even though I haven't figured out everything yet... But that's also why I wanted to talk about having more SP. To see if people would do things differently or not, and what type of things they would do different.