@krnel is there a blog article of a link, sort of a "Voting Education Guide for Steemit"? I only ask, because this is my second week here on Steemit and I am - far from figuring things out.
In fact I have upvoted my post or comments - basically out of "Pushing Buttons" to see what things do! I've also read and upvoted so many others that I believe I've exhausted all my reward potential - and do not truly understand how this works, I believe it replenishes over time, but I do not know the daily limits or even how to change my voting (percent/power) to be able to give a portion to many others that I read through out the week.
I have reinvested my SBD to "Power UP" my account, and I even earned 1 Steem by interacting with another account here and upvoting & resteeming their article. Which I plan on powering up this evening as well.
Steemit has opened me up to so many possibilities and new learning experiences. Any recommendations on specific articles to read on steemit to be more educated in the process would be appreciated. As a good 'citizen' of this new comunity and now understanding better the "Why of Voting" I will concentrate my efforts to 'spread the wealth' how little in may be now, it will make me a better steward of "more" in the future. Thank you for any information you can direct me toward.
Next to your icon on your blog page is a menu. When you open that menu there is an item 'white paper'. This discusses why the developers made Steemit the way they did, and may be helpful to you.
There is a lack of tools of new people to learn about the platform or community operation. You have to learn as you go.
Go here and replace it with your name: https://steemdb.com/@krnel/
You can see your power. It takes like 24h to replace 10% of power.
I used to have links on various thinkgs, but last time I formatted my comp I couldn't find out how to backup bookmarks in this lame browser, while Firefox it's easy and obvious how to do it. So I thought it was on the "cloud" like my bookmark toolbar links are, but not, I lost all my "steem" folder of links.
Try to reflect on how certain behavior would work int he real world, and if it would be acceptable. Self-voting is like this, which another commenters said well:
In regular voting int he world, buying votes isn't something cool either ;) We also can't payout selves in some imaginary closed loop when we work for others or for ourselves. We need others to BUY what we SELL, not buy it ourselves hehe.