Rewards are earned two ways, author rewards and curation rewards. There are also Hive-Engine tokens, so when users vote on my post they also receive extra fun tokens when I vote on it. I have been around since the very beginning and have always done this, and there is nothing wrong with upvoting your own posts. Voting for your own comments however is excessive and would be silly. I have increased my voting power so that I distribute more rewards to the users who vote on my posts and I also upvote comments from people who are social and interact with my posts. Hive is a fun place and I like to share, and try to teach others how it works by example! !PIZZA Thanks for asking, have a great day!!