Thanks so much I wasnt aware of this - and in sure like 90% of steemians arent either.

People should be educated that upvoting yout own comments is poor form -and at the lower level its a complete waste of an upvote that could have gone towards an article you liked.

I dont think that increasing the threshhold will do much apart from making people mad.

Maybe once people have been flagged as spammers then their threshold should increase - once they have been a proven spammer then we should be harsh.

On the flipside i think alot of spammers dont actually know their comments come across like spam so maybe we need to be lenient and educate people