Turn that off, its not youtube.
Turn off upvoting content you haven't even looked at the thread and you can down/upvote from the damn menu of threads to choose..Turn that off as well. At least make the person click the content before its downvoted into oblivion. That is all.
I don't see how your thread starting at 1 (due to your own vote, automatically) makes any difference. We all know it's essentially a neutral post so making it start at 0 wouldn't change how we looked at it; we'd still acknowledge it as neutral.
For upvoting a thread you haven't looked at...I regularly mouse over the header and read the first few lines it shows. Sometimes it shows the entirety of the post if it's short (many are) and you don't even need to open it. Another pointless change, imo.
I agree with the title. There is no conceivable reason we should be voting on our own content.
I don't, however, agree with disallowing voting on threads from the main menu. If a thread titled "f*ck this game rito" is in Boards Feedback, I'm just going to downvote it. Personally I would actually enter the thread just to report it, but many others might not.
