One other thing to remember about delegations @simplymike is that the removal of them could have adverse effects, It may have been fixed and may have only affected large delegations. Also it takes 5 days for you to get your delegation back once you end it.
I did a small experiment on my just-in-case account after seeing what happened to @apolymask when a delegation was removed from his account. He crashed all the way to 4% RC, yet still had ample SP.(this happened very early in the HF20 switch).
So for my experiment, I gave my account 10 steem to level up, and removed 10 SP from what I had delegated. (I don't want it to drop below 50SP). The removal of the SP did not seem to have any adverse effects on the RC's, but that could have been because of the leveling up of the steem I gave it. It did however take 5 days before the 10SP showed back up in my primary account.
Wait! That's pretty important info.
But if I delegate for 8 weeks, they should be able to earn enough SP of their own to not get into trouble.
Or am I missing the point?
I don't understand what you mean with 'ample SP'.
Earlier today, I changed my delegation to my alt account from 500SP to 250sp, and that had no effect on RC. But the account has 148 on its own.
Isn't that a normal rule?
Also, I read somewhere that delegating has no effect on your own RC.
I'm not sure I fully understand what you mean. Could you maybe try to ecplain it like you were talking go a 5 year old?
(Sorry for being so slow on understanding)
@apolymask got one of the big I'm going on vacation delegations from @krnel for 5000SP I believe, (not positive on amount), but after the removal apolymask still had his own 5000SP, so it should not have crashed him down to only 4% remaining RC's So that is what I meant he had "ample" SP left. (A lot).
I did not know about the 5 day's to get your SP back after delegating, so did not know it has been a rule for awhile. (I'm new to giving delegations and taking them back.)
No I don't think you missed the point, and I am leaning to the fact that the crash in RC's that some people experienced was just due to the initial HF20 Effect of Delegations that started just before and ended just after HF20. That was why I did my small experiment. So I think it is all fine now with the giving of and removing of delegations. I hope.
I think I'll have to try it to finf out. We'll see how it goes after the first run.
And about the 5-day return: it used to be 7 days before HF20, so it's a big improvement :0)
@davemccoy has a very new pretty much 0SP testing account, he could be a big help in using it to test different things out.
I sent him a message on Discord
I will reply very soon... I just got back and have post to make and then I'll be there! :)