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RE: Mana vs Voting Power - What name do you prefer ? ( 2 Steem-Bounty Added )
Steem Power has not been renamed!!
Voting Power was renamed to Mana, not Steem Power. Voting Power (which goes from 0 to 100% in five days and recovers all the time) is part of what decides the value of your vote. Steem Power is part of it too. You spend 2% of your remaining Voting Power (now Mana) every time you make a 100% upvote.
Notice in the wallet Steem Power is still called Steem Power:
Ah yes ... I made a blunder and will fix it in my post. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
What do you think of the name changes ?
Voting power was confusing. Mana makes sense because it works very like mana which is common in video games and people understand it. The association with video games isn't a problem for me as it brings the idea across accurately.
Voting Power was a bad name because it could refer to various things that affect your vote.
Thanks for your input. I feel as if Steemit is marketed towards a niche group already ( crypto investors ) and using words like Mana is keeping within that niche as I feel as Gamers and Crypto investors are over-lapping groups. I think it would be better to stay away from such words. To me Voting Power seems more straight forward for the non gaming new user.
If it's a choice between using a word some people understand, and using a word nobody understands, I'll go with the former. Mana works because it is more or less the same concept, but there isn't really anything else which so easily maps to it.
I don't view it that way but I do respect your opinion. Thanks for your thoughts on the name change.