Standard units last forever. These are the most common units gained by sending STEEM or by being sponsored. The only exception to this is if your account is blacklisted for spam, plagiarism or illegal activity. If you become inactive, the value of these units will decline over time, but they remain yours and will return to normal when you resume activity on your account.
Bonus units gained from delegating STEEM Power remain in place until you cancel the delegation.
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5 clarity score
It's not the value of units that decline, it's actually rshare balance in the account. Talking about that is not even necessary here.
This is my answer 7. Of course all answers from partiko users will need to have the footer removed ;p
Accurate. Technically the rshares balance from inactives will decline, but the units will continue to earn new rshares at the same rate. (Eventually, your daily rshares increase would line up with your daily rshares 'tax' and your balance would remain in an equilibrium with 100 days of stored value waiting for your next post. Response accepted as a qualifying submission.
Don't forgot you can also earn points by scoring the clarity and helpfulness of other qualifying responses.
Rating 7, covers full details
Rated as 6. I feel this looks a perfect response but there is no need to talk about in activeness and units declining. it would only confuse a common user.
Take away that part and it's a 7 plus a perfect response.
Rating 5
What @fuadsm said is true at least afaik and to further elaborate lost rshares by inactivity are not recovered when the aacount become active again, they're being redistributed. Read "redistribution" on this post:
https://steemit.com/steem/@steembasicincome/vote-values-in-steem-basic-income-part-three-where-are-we-going
Just remove that part of answer and it's better.