@improv It's not really a "fee" in the sense that you don't have to pay a single thing except a small percentage of voting power that replenishes itself in a short time period. The indirect payment system is there to help grow Steemdunk. Why would I work on it so much if all people did was leech? For now it's the best compromise that's fair to everyone.
You can disable your account here: https://v2.steemconnect.com/dashboard
I agree that it's a reasonable amount, but I disagree that it's not a fee. My concern is that there's nothing to let me know this when I signed up. If I hadn't done some exploring, I wouldn't have found this.
Since I now know there's a way to unsubscribe, I feel more ok about it, and will stick with it, but if I can suggest two additions: one, that upon signing up, there's a notification that the upvoting thing will happen. Two, that there be a link on the page for unsubscribing to the service.
I have another suggestion. I'd use a tool that let me upvote all of an author's posts with a particular tag. I joined a community that uses tags to identify posts relevant to that community, so I'd like to upvote @mariannewest's #freewrite posts, specifically.
Hi @improv, thanks for the suggestion, a feature for this is planned. I've recently completed an internal overhaul before I can start adding new features again.
Great to hear!