Hello Friends & Fellow Stackers!

If I promised to give you a penny every day for a year, would you be excited?

Call me ungrateful, but if I'm being honest, I would not be. Thankful and appreciative? Absolutely without question. But excited? Meh, not really.

I've often asked myself what the ultimate purpose of holding steem power is. There are many potential answers, but I think I've found the best one so far. We members of #steemsilvergold, as well as aspiring members, have something many others do not. What we have is a community of support. This fact changes the nature of the game a bit. Please allow me a little latitude here as I explain my logic.

If you are not already aware of steemworld.org, it is an excellent tool that shows much of what steemd does, but in an easier to understand and view format that even a dummy like me can follow. I LOVE this tool and use it ALL the time. I gain many insights with it and I encourage you to use it. Among many other data points, I like to track the weight of the organic upvotes I am fortunate to receive. From the graphic above, you can see what my voting weights amount to. At this time, my maximum vote is a humble $.20. I'm still proud of it though because for a long time this was $.02 .

I want my vote to mean something and for my appreciation to translate to a real reward for someone!

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Together we are stronger, so when the idea for a community curation trail was floated around, I jumped right in! Now we all have concerns, founded or unfounded, about maintaining a certain amount of VP. So naturally, those that signed up probably set their weight to 5%. Using steemworld.org, I can see that many of the 5% votes are worth about $.01 or less (zero), including mine. When I noticed this I was not proud. Then I had a thought:

I am the problem.

How can a member with low SP be expected to contribute more if I am only giving their posts $.01 worth of love? What would happen if instead, I was giving them $.05 cents or more? What if we all were? Sooner or later, each member's votes would be worth more, hence the title of this post: GIVE TO GET!

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As one of our favorite members often says, it's not what you have, it's what you give! I hope you won't take this as a complaint, but as an offering of a different perspective and an invitation to update your settings! If you haven't already joined the @myprecious curation trail, please take a look at this post: https://steemit.com/steemsilvergold/@summertooth/how-to-use-steemauto-to-set-an-auto-upvote-and-why-you-should-do-it-now, from @summertooth that does an excellent job explaining the process. It is easy, takes very little time, and you can stop it at any point. I would also suggest that prospective members of SSG also take the time to set it up and please let us know once you've done so!

...and that is my $.02!