@jerrybanfield, your strategy is not optimal.
Instead of upvoting every 5 days, you should upvote every day 11 times.
Your voting power would go from 100% down to 80% and will be back to 100% the next day.
The first day, you will get $361.35. And for 5 days, you will get $1806.75.
That is better that $1681.03.
You're right and I am going to switch to this going forward!
Followed you!
It seems to me that everyone here is trying to game the algorithm to maximize their payout. What's the point of creating a system which doesn't provide inherent value to users?
We are not trying to "game the algorithm", but we are showing how that could be done.