Excellent article. While most can agree that corruption is amoral, consensus on what actually constitutes corruption seems impossible to achieve.

While I would be of the persuasion that there is something cringeworthy about upvoting your own work, some unblinkingly broadcast that they use 80% of their daily votes on themselves and 20% on others.

My own policy is to upvote those who exhibit, what I consider, community minded behaviour, and do not consistently reward themselves for their own content.

I am condemning no one. Each is entitled to do as he sees fit. Perhaps each of us in our own small way can use what influence we have to ensure that corruption does not become the accepted norm, at least here on Steemit.