I personally have never upvoted my own comment, though not because of some principle objection to doing it. I think as long as you don’t do it all the time it can be useful when you think a comment is particularly important/relevant/whatever and you think people should read it. Being confidant in the comment or the comment being time-consuming don’t seem like good reasons to upvote your own comment. Also, my guess is you might get more downvotes if people think you shouldn’t have strongly upvoted your own comment—I’m not sure to what extent though.
Of course, the norm would be very different if comments were automatically strongly upvoted like posts, so even if this is the current norm it doesn’t mean it’s the one that “should” be.
Something like this seems right. It’s not the worst thing ever to do it, but it’s a bit of a faux pas in my books I’d only do if it really did seem important.
I personally have never upvoted my own comment, though not because of some principle objection to doing it. I think as long as you don’t do it all the time it can be useful when you think a comment is particularly important/relevant/whatever and you think people should read it. Being confidant in the comment or the comment being time-consuming don’t seem like good reasons to upvote your own comment. Also, my guess is you might get more downvotes if people think you shouldn’t have strongly upvoted your own comment—I’m not sure to what extent though.
Of course, the norm would be very different if comments were automatically strongly upvoted like posts, so even if this is the current norm it doesn’t mean it’s the one that “should” be.
Something like this seems right. It’s not the worst thing ever to do it, but it’s a bit of a faux pas in my books I’d only do if it really did seem important.