VOTING POWER 101 - HOW to VOTE - WHEN to STOP - SIMPLE and EASY EXPLANATION

in #steemit7 years ago (edited)

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Upvoting and Voting Power is still not understood by everyone, especially the new users. I will try to make it as easy as possible to understand it. Upvoting is fun and we like to see our upvotes make a difference, until it doesn't right? The more powerful your Upvotes the more curation rewards you get. Below I will explain how this works the best way I know how, using an analogy.

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We will use a Boxer to explain this. That means, you are this guy:


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Vote Influence

When you start out as a fighter you are weak. Your punches don't hit as hard as a veteran boxer and you don't always know when and where to punch. You just know that you have to punch and train to become stronger. Training will make you stronger. To train and make your punches hit harder you need STEEM POWER. The more STEEM POWER the harder you will hit.

The more STEEM POWER you have the more influence your upvotes will have and the bigger your curation rewards will be.

MORE STEEMPOWER = BIGGER INFLUENCE, MORE CURATION REWARDS

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Voting Power

Just like any boxer you can not keep hitting forever. Your first few punches are the ones that really do damage. They connect with most of your power.

Voting Power decreases with each upvote. At 100% one upvote will decrease your voting power by 2% per vote.

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After throwing punches left and right you will start draining yourself and you will become less effective with each punch. No one can keep punching and expect to have the same power behind every punch.

As your Voting Power goes down, so does your voting influence. The less Voting Power, the weaker your upvotes.


As a boxer's energy gets drained he has to eventually stop fighting and recharge. No boxer fights everyday. They need to take a rest and after a while they will be able to hit at 100% of his power again.

Your Voting Power recharges at a rate of around 20% per day. If you deplete your Voting Power it can take quite some time to recharge to be at 100% again.

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Boxers who fight for too long will drain themselves too much will take longer to recover. If they do not fully recover before their next fight it will make them weaker. They will not be hitting at 100% of their true potential.

Don't drain your Steem Power to levels below 80%. Your votes will have less effect the lower your Voting Power goes. Instead, take a rest. Go write that post you have been thinking of and let your Voting Power regenerate to ensure your votes and rewards have maximum effect.

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The golden rule is 11 Upvotes a day for maximum effectiveness. Remember the more your vote influences a post the more you will be rewarded in curation rewards.

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Every boxer trains for hours a day, they hone their skills and know when they are in peak condition for a fight. They prepare themselves and ready their minds in order to be as effective as possible. . Knowing exactly how many punches they can throw at what level of power to ensure they come out successful. Knowing when to take a breather before the next powerful blow can make all the difference.

Keep track of your Voting Power and how much your upvotes are worth. Remember, the less you vote is worth, the less curation rewards you will get.

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To see your Voting Power visit:

https://Steemd.com/@yournamehere - Your voting power and stats will be shown on the left.
https://Steemnow.com - Enter your name in the top right corner.

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That pretty much sums it up! Don't deplete your voting power. 11 Upvotes a day. Keep track of your Voting Power and try to look for good posts to get good curation rewards.

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The irony is now everyone who reads this is looking at their Voting Power and then thinking if they should spend their valuable vote on this post. Short answer:

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To all my followers:

Thank you for reading! Steem on Steemians!

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Great information and easy to understand, now let me see where I can put you on my slider :)

Thanks, I like trying to make things easy to understand. I know I am not the best writer but using an analogy normally works when it comes to explaining. Thanks for the upvote, one of the bigger ones I got for this post! Hehe, thanks!

I try my best to be generous when I can. Glad to be of help, maybe I'll reward you in other ways as well. :-)

Appreciate it! I saw you resteemed! Thanks mate! Every bit helps. This post has baffled me with the amount of Votes vs Payout. At least it's helping people and gaining me some followers so I'm happy about that.

This post received a 2.0% upvote from @randowhale thanks to @wthomas! For more information, click here!

I see the notation, but no benefit was granted???

@wrthomas couldn't agree with you more. @scrooger fantastic post as usual. I've upvoted and resteemed. Really learning a lot from you. Dankie :)

Resteemed because this is useful to know. I definitely learned from it

Glad you like it!

FINALLY! I was searching for the answer to so many questions surrounding this for ages. You did it! You answered all my voting questions. TY!

Awesome

Hey .. @scrooger

I would Like to apprecite the effort your doing ... Your showing us valuable content and also to the community . I really love the way your doing effort..

You made really great post for the community and I am very much intrested in your post and I hope that You will share valuable content in future too . Your Love and effort really apprecited by me @sophiaolive

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Regards Sophia Olive

You are most welcome! Checked out your profile! Nice intro. Have fun here on Steemit and check out my other posts. Some are useful for new Steemians. =)

Thanks you for the break Down! Upvote Number 4 to you Steemer!

Whoohoo! Thanks appreciate it!

I can appreciate this post because it caused me to rethink my upvoting plan.

Thanks!

RESTEEMED

Thank you! Glad it helped! Yeah sticking to that upvoting plan is harder than we think though. Good luck!

Voted for this post! Was this a Hard punch 🤛 buddy ?

A little jab to the chin. But much appreciated!

Waw thanks for this explanation
it was useful
I resteem but not up-vote as my voting power is at 27.45%
lol
joking - upvoted
:)

Haha, appreciate it!

Also, you can vote with less than 100% even if you don't have 482SP

Check how to vote without burning Voting power <a href"https://steemit.com/minnowsupport/@allfabeta/if-you-are-minnow-how-is-frustrated-because-your-voting-power-is-downing-so-fast"> read a post

Resteemed...not even just for the vote...this is a good guide for people new to voting and good reminder to people how things have changed after HF19

You still get your upvote, not because of the promise. Simply because you are awesome!

I see 222 upvotes and just 12,99 pending payout for this post... I wish I could add another zero to that!

Yes, I am a little bummed by that. Because this info is only useful to the newer users, they already used up most of their Voting power and their accounts are small. So every upvote is pretty small. It's ok though. As long as the message spreads and people are getting helped.

Also, you can vote with less than 100% even if you don't have 482SP

Check how to vote without burning Voting power <a href"https://steemit.com/minnowsupport/@allfabeta/if-you-are-minnow-how-is-frustrated-because-your-voting-power-is-downing-so-fast"> read a post

Thanks!
I knew that ChainBB could be used for that, but I'm not a big fan (yet)...

btw. I got so frustrated that i couldnt use the slider that i bought some more steem :D

Me too. yesterday I bought delegated SP and... I was frustrated what I can vote only 100% for every vote... and then i start my research...

I'm not a big fun of chainbb too. but at least I can reward all my commentators