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Ah, gotcha. How does one alter their steem power? I have only come across power up/down in the controls.

Steem, when powered up, becomes Steem Power. Powering down, takes Steem Power out into Steem based dollars that can be withdrawn. Don't do this unless you need the money :)

Okay, thanks.

I thought maybe there was some secret way to alter your vote output by 10% or so that I didn't know about.

There is. Once you hold a certain amount of SP (some say around 300-500), you will have a slider available to you to adjust your vote strength.

Ah, cool. Thanks

500SP required on Steemit.com, eSteem phone app the slider is available right away.