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@david.prochnow Wait, it happens sometimes but not others? I'm probably not going to be able to figure out what the deal is tonight if it can't be recreated 100% of the time by doing the same thing twice. I heard mention of a 30 minute waiting period but I'm not sure if that's the deal in this case either.

Regardless of the cause I'll go track someone down by hand and try to figure this one out for you because now I'm wondering what happened as well. If this platform managed to accidentally handicap new users to the point where the platform is unusable that's one thing. But if this was by design then I'll go raise hell for you because that would very possibly be the stupidest thing I've ever seen. Invite people to an unusable platform?

Yeah that'll go over well... Most people will just give up and move on, or go back to reddit/facebook because at least there they can use the freaking thing... >facepalm<

I seriously hope this was unintended and is just a coding error but I'll have to read it all to know for sure. There's been so much melodrama over recent unilateral changes without any discussion of thought first I'm sorry if I seem mad, because it's not at you. Not even a little, I'm tired of every new patch that seems to be almost designed to tie peoples hands or even go so far as to knock the legs out from under them altogether. I had hopped by maybe tagging some of the other coders someone would even look at this but it appears I'm going to have to take a more proactive almost "in their face" approach to get some answers. Sorry you're having to go through all this, but I'll keep at it and let you know because frankly if it's happened to you and you were one of the few to speak up, then it's already happened to many others that already moved on.

I'll be in touch once I figure something out. I guess I should have expected these kinds of issues a bit more during a beta but things were working just fine before HF 13 so I don't see why everything is just a massive mess after HF 13. Hang in there man, I've finally had enough that I've already let loose on Github and it seems like steemit.chat is my next stop on the "hate me if you want to for speaking my mind" train...

I can't reproduce the error message right now and today everything seems fine so far.

But I guess it has not been completely arbitrary behaviour, but dependet on the cooldown-time of my voting-power. In so far things worked like planned.

My problem, at least yesterday, was that I wasn't able to recognize a clear relationship between my voting power (according to steemd.com and steemstats.com) and the error. But if new users get penalized in some way, that might explain the situation.

It's not really that they get penalized, it's more their initial lack of Steem Power that both solved one problem but sort of created another. It was a system that was meant to throttle posting and voting from brand new accounts in the hope of preventing account creation abuse, and also to stop newly made bot accounts from running rampant.

Every account is effected by the voting power curvature issue but it seems to affect lower Steem Powered accounts more than Higher Steem Powered accounts.

In any case I'm glad things are working better for you today. I tagged the account so I could keep an eye on it and it seems like you've already been racking up some post and vote rewards so hopefully you'll be all good from here on out.

Yesterday was a bit of a mess in terms of outrage on the platform and I was about ready to go crazy if yet another change meant to do good had killed yet another function of the platform.

I registred yesterday and I am facing the same problem. I cannot vote and when I tried to upload my introduceyourself I got the same error. Is there yet something known about this ''Transaction failed'' message?