No, I have people to do that for me.

Welcome to Kbin where everything is made up and the points don't matter (except to everyone in this comment section apparently).

I upvote everything I post. If I didn’t like it, I wouldn’t have submitted it.

If its wrong to upvote own posts, then it should be disabled.

If there are different policies re auto own voting then over time users from instances which do it will end up with higher scores over time. all else being equal.

I like and boost my posts for visibility but my comments I don't. PSA: you can see who upvotes and downvotes any post or comment by selecting "more" and then "activity". I can see you upvoted your post, for example. As far as I am aware, this is a kbin thing-- lemmy does not make this visible to the user.

And I think it might as well implement an automatic upvote for everything, like reddit and lemmy (or lemmy.world, anyway).

No, it's kind of weird we can upvote our own stuff anyway. We wouldn't submit it if we didn't support what we were saying anyway.

Upvoting your own material is a Michael Scott thing to do.

too lazy

For posts I upvote and boost. For comments I upvote, unless the person I'm responding to hasn't upvoted their own comment.

No. I already hated people doing that on Youtube. I think its a silly and self centered thing to do.

See, I always thought that felt really weird when Reddit did it, I never liked that. To me, if a post has zero up votes, that should mean either no one has seen it yet or that everyone who has feels entirely neutral about it, it's right at 0. If there's at least 1 upvote, that should mean at least 1 person found it good, and if it's negative, at least 1 person thinks it isn't. To start that total at 1 instead of 0 feels arbitrary and like designed to be less intuitive, not more.

Like someone said above (but making the opposite point from them here), if you didn't like it, why would you post it? You having posted or commented at all is evidence you meant to, have you ever commented or posted by accident? There's intentionality there by default, I don't see why it needs the auto self-upvote to start with.

I don't do it, I don't see the point to doing it except to mirror Reddit, which shouldn't be our goal imo.

Taking off that auto-upvote and starting from 0 was - mostly humorously - referred to as "Reddit hard mode" back in the day.

That was at least partially because it's far more likely that someone else chose to downvote rather than the commenter / OP, and that meant the content was tainted with suspicion from the outset.

But, if everyone starts out in hard mode it's not really hard mode any more.

Also, we can see both favourites and reductions (up- and downvotes) here* so it's slightly clearer what's going on even if someone chooses to rate their own content.

ETA: kbin ego mode: favourite your own stuff; kbin hard mode: reduce it.

* kbin.social. Perhaps not so at other Fediverse places.

I don't upvote or boost anything I create (if I have it would have been by accident or as a test) - it feels weird to do so.

There is an argument for threads/comments to start with 1 upvote, ala reddit, in order to "reward" people for contributing by adding to their rep, even if no other people upvote them further. On the other hand, if for instance total rep were to be capped (there's been some discussion of doing this as it has various benefits), and that cap is relatively low, then maybe all contributions should start off at 0 in order to prevent people from maximising their karma by spamming.

Not usually. There've been a couple where the conventional wisdom had people downvoting, because butthurt children, and I self-upvoted as a way to suggest that, "Hey, there's something of value here if you don't knee jerk so much." Seems to have worked, if only marginally.

If I think my comment is more relevant than all the others I see, I even boost myself lmao. No shame hahah.

When I'm contributing to the conversation, I upvote myself. When I'm no longer contributing to the original discussion (like I'm talking with someone and we get somewhat off topic), I don't upvote myself anymore.

It's more about what order a new person should see stuff!