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Sorry, but it is easy to say all this if you have a vote that is worth something in the first place. With the fall in price of steem a lot of us have been trying to keep our vp above 80% at all times in order to have some impact when we vote (i've been vesting too). You've (witnesses) fucked our voting power and are now complaining because everyone has decided to fuck off for a few days to recover. Boo hoo, you're not getting any votes. The pool can keep it's upvotes. I won't upvote until I can make an impact on people who need it (the people who don't get much of a vote anyway). Sorry if all this is impacting on the big boys income. No I'm not sorry. I'm fucking pissed off. And you've made me use some RC when I'd promised myself I wouldn't comment until it was up to 80%! So now, I am doubly fucked off.

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Us witnesses did not write the code. I’m not complaining at all, just trying to explain to people the current situation with voting power as there is a lot of confusion.

Most of us are upset about the lost in voting power and the resource credit changes. We all have been impacted and lost a lot of potential rewards.

With 2k sp one comment won’t impact your resource credits at all. Comments don’t drain from your voting power.

I wasn’t asking anyone to vote for me.

I'm still voting, but doing a little less so my vp grows again. What I won't do is buy votes. Will the vote sellers be struggling too? That could be a good outcome. I saw one notorious self-voter is only getting about a tenth of what he got before the hardfork :)

If you vote less than (10) 100% votes in a day, you will still recover voting power (aka mana).

You would need to use a lot more than 10/day to stay where you are. At 30% VP a 100% vote uses 0.6% VP, and you still get 20% per day, so equilibrium there is more like 32 votes.

Even if you're spending 10/day or 15/day you'll eventually grow back to the point where that's equilibrium, just a little bit slower.

Of course, more than half the accounts in the system can't currently use 32 votes in a day anyway, so that becomes kind of moot.

Agreed, but wanted to keep it simple. Each vote uses 2% of your remaining vp not total, so as your voting power drops you will use less. Wanted to more remove the stigma of voting right now.

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LOL at your comment delivery service.
I always vote with my heart. And since in my mind's eye you = your avatar I vote for the Captain of the Serenity a lot.
So if voting as normally as possible helps equilibrium, does commenting help too? I've been able to comment with caution since yesterday, and I have about 200 SP. By the looks of it I could almost resume normal use, maybe - since my normal is <10 comments most days and maybe 1 post a week.

I think all transactions that are done organically will help find a balance. My main point is voting power was just reset, it doesn't need to find a balance so holding off voting to get to 100% isn't necessary. You can still vote, just vote a little less if you want to recover all the way to 100%.

I see a lot of people avoiding all voting as they see one vote drop their VP 60%, but that's just a display bug.

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Thank you, this helped me understand the voting and convinced me to get back to voting and commenting. Looking at percentage, not actual numbers, that makes sense. Visiting Steemit has been a part of my day since I started, then for two days I couldn't interact at all, no way to even ask a question! My 'mana' was in the minus billions and I didn't know what mana was!

But now that I'm following your advice and started interacting as I usually would, my numbers are growing, not depleting, and I'm feeling a lot better!

I don't know much about all this but understand that after one day of HF20 all is ok for high SP steemians like more than 2000SP.
The voting power is charging from 0 to 100% after HF20. on day of HF it was goes to 0. That's OK. This will happens some time when changes are done.
Now, it will take some days to come normal to all steemians. For me, no matter VP is 100% or 5%. but important is, it should work. and Now it is working good. Our 24hour vote value is same only quantity of votes increase or decrease respectively VP decrease or increase. This is vice versa phenomena.

So, it would seem just ok to wait another day and recover a bit, or limit voting until recharged and carry on as normal?

Now steemit is back to its normal state and we should not worry about RC .I know we will take time to overcome that stress and panic state but one thing I liked the most is

Always vote with your ♥
Vote those whose work you like because we are humans and we need motivation.
When a person don't get appreciation even if you like their work at some point they lose motivation and leave what they love to do irrespective of being good at it because they think it's not worth it.

Now RC is totally normal you can vote comment post easily and normally like you used to 😊

I didn't care and was just wiping out voting power, since RC cost so much more that in effect I would never run out of voting since the recharge rate was much lower than the RC cost to do any actions as they were 1:1.

Well said!
Just do thing normal.
No exaggeration nonetheless
Let it be.
Keep on postin’

My voting power is at 50% according to steem world. 0.02. I turned off my autovoter as well because I don't know what affect that might have. Thank you for a decent explanation though on the voting power.

This is great to read, still trying to wrap my head around it all, didn't quite know what to do about voting so I appreciate this :)