So, something I've been wondering since I released my first Itch project (a big texture pack) in the past few days, is whether or not we creators should ever upvote our own "Release Announcement" and/or other threads when a vote arrow is available.

Obviously, voting multiple times (with multiple accounts) would be bad. That's not what I'm asking about though.

I noticed that my own "Release Announcement" thread didn't start with my own vote applied (unlike Reddit), and so I left that alone for a few days thinking that we maybe aren't supposed to click that on our own post, but then today I clicked it since most of the other threads seemed to have that vote included already probably. Are we supposed to do that though?

Is there a penalty (or a benefit, for that matter) to voting up just once on our own posts with our own (single, not multiple) account?

Also, if there's no penalty, then wouldn't it be good if Itch defaulted to the creator automatically upvoting their own post by default?