You are missing the point.
Whether you send notices to yourself or not, you should always make sure your code doesn't contain holes in it, and yours does, because it assumes that ANY notice you send yourself, will be one that sends a $ticks.
Your argument is based on what a regular user will never do (/notice anything else but a $ticks to himself), but that assumption is weak. People do the weirdest things that one would never expect, and that can involve sending yourself notices. Which is exactly why I said what I said, that it would be wiser to make a distinction.
I've coded a role playing game, and it is amazing how many unexpected and unforeseen things people perform when playing the bot. The most bugs that my bot suffered from, were those that arose in unusual situations, and it is those situations that you should foresee.
Good day.
