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I completely agree with you on the question of self-upvotes.
In fact, there's yet another option: do away with the automatic self-upvote, so that users may actively vote on their own comments just like anyone else's (with the same impact on karma). This doesn't sound like a major change, but who knows -- the results may be surprising.
On the question of explanations, I'm less sure (cf. my reply to Yvain's comment that you quoted). If I put a lot of thought into a comment, and it gets downvoted, I'm going to be perplexed enough to want an explanation. In particular, I won't appreciate an implicit suggestion that I didn't put a lot of thought into the comment.
The problem with being able to self-upvote but not have it be automatic is that the people who have the lowest standards would vote their own comments up the most. This would effectively handicap people who hold themselves to higher standards.
I think for this reason that it should either be automatic or not exist at all.
Ah, but many of the comments made here clearly aren't intended to be profoundly important or even particularly useful.
It would be useful for people to be able to make inconsequential posts and then not vote them up. Similarly for the ability to emphasize particularly important points.
If instead we make it impossible to vote our own comments and posts either up or down, then the automatic upvote should absolutely be removed.