• Some would say that every user has brought value to Hive by investing in Hive Power (and HIVE and HBD), and therefore deserves to upvote their own posts to get a share of the rewards pool.
• Some would say that Hive is a democracy, and everyone is free to choose what to do with their account for as long as they don't intentionally cause harm to other people.
• Some would say that users who upvote their own posts are selfish, because they want to allocate the rewards for themselves, instead of waiting for upvotes for good posts.
• Some might have other opinions regarding this matter that does not exclusively belong to one of the three choices above.

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Yes, only because everyone is free to choose what to do with their account (60.0%) 9 / 15 Yes, because they have brought value to Hive by investing in Hive Power (26.67%) 4 / 15 Other (13.33%) 2 / 15