For some time, someone (or some THING) has been turning my upvotes into downvotes, and robbing from both me and the target of my esteem:
For example:
Then....
I upvote this person's most recent thread, and watch what happens:
Now, for posts with higher values, I've seen my upvote subtract as much as $2 or even more, so it seems to be some kind of percentage thing "they" have wired to my upvotes somehow, rather than a given dollar amount.
I can only assume (as others have now been noticing the same thing happening with their accounts) that the same people who are routinely downvoting me because of their free-speech-hating views are programming my blog, somehow, to do this.
THIS NEEDS TO STOP.
THIS IS A CRIME.
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Edited to add: Some are suggesting that I am seeing a Steemit revaluation occurring exactly as I post, but if that were the case it wouldn't happen EVERY TIME I vote on a valuable post, like it is doing here and now. Yesterday, for example I upvoted a very good post that was by a relative newbie and it was $7+, and my upvote stole a whole dollar or more down to just over $6. I felt so bad I sent her 1 SBD. I shouldn't have to do that!
Hello
This is normal, do not worry.
The pool of Steem that is given to comments and posts is limited, so if other posts receive alot of upvotes while your post doesn't, the value can go down with the next upvote, as upvoting refreshes it.
If you do not receive any upvotes for example, the value will still go down if you do anything that refreshes the valuation, or at the time at which you receive the reward.
Not sure if this is understandable the way I wrote it, feel free to let me know if not.
OK. I'm just curious why it didn't happen, ever, the first few months I was here.
I noticed the same thing has been happening to me lately - what the hell? Sometimes it still gives a cent or 2, usually on smaller value posts, but it seems to regularly be taking 5-20+ cents off larger value posts I upvote, and still even more than my vote is worth on some smaller value posts as well, but not always. This is messed up. I thought like some that it was simply steem re-valuing as I posted or downvotes coming in as I voted, but it's been doing this for several days now, and I've been watching the number of votes (usually adds just mine, and no downvotes in sight since I've been trying to keep track, so it doesn't seem to be either of these possibilities.) So strange, and it really needs to stop!
I resteemed to try and get more coverage of this issue on steemit so hopefully it can get fixed, whatever is causing this. I'm kinda afraid to upvote posts now for fear I will be dinging decent chunks of steem value from good posts I'm trying rather to add value to... But then it doesn't always do it, just most of the time, so really hard to figure out what's going on. So messed up :(
I answered below
Totally, agreed. Jason. Thanks for the confirmation!
I think the issue occurs on older posts that havent been voted in a while after STEEM price has dropped. I am speculating here but I think when you vote in these circumstances it recalculates the reward vests based on the new lower STEEM price.
That might play a role too, but I think it's mainly about what I wrote below.
I never vote on anything older than 5 days.