I'm sorry sir, I totally forgot about you:(
I'm busy with my stuff:)
I believe getting a good payment for post is a challenge for everyone, not only for minnows. Unfortunately steemit is not a get rich quick scheme. My best advice is that you don't expect anything, just enjoy writing. Even nobody cares, just keep going until you get somewhere. If it turns out that steemit is not for you, than at least you tried. But try it hard! And don't compare yourself to others. Develop your writing abilities, your language skills if you need. You will benefit out of that on way or another. Writing blog is the best way to practice english. (I'm doing it myself as I am from hungary and learning english only since 6 years, steemit is a great oportunity to have some practice in writing)
The Steem Power bar should work properly on steemd, I haven't noticed anything wrong with it. It can be many reasons why it swings like crazy as users bandwidth depends on:
- the traffic on the blockchain at time of your transaction
- total traffic in the past few days
- your SP
- the TOTAL SP on the steem ecosystem.
So, if you have low SP and do something at busy times, it can go negative.
I wrote an articke about it a few weeks ago, you can check it out: The Big bandwidth conspiracy. I can not explain bandwidth any better:)
Don't vote on posts older than 7 days! It has no value at all. Just using your bandwidth and voting power.
About the delegation:
I have not found any useful info on rules how does this newcomer's delegation works. So I can not say anything on that, sorry. I'll keep my eyes open as I am also interested in this topic. Let you know if there is any news.
About my delegation:
You can keep it as long as you need it. Only one condition: Do good!:)
No need to thank, I was happy to help you. But as soon as you have 30SP on your own, I will take it back. (at that point it will hurt your feelings but, i'm saying sorry in advance:))