Thanks for this. I'm still a little confused by voting power, but little by little I hope to gain more insight. At steemd and steemdb it shows voting power, yet on steemdb it also shows my upvotes are at 100%, so this is definitely confusing.
Have you discovered any insight into that?
When we first start off, all our votes are at 100% Power. Which means the WEIGHT of your vote is at the maximum each time you vote. As you get alittle more STEEM POWER and aren't quite a little fish anymore, if you hold your mouse over the UPVOTE (green) button, it gives you a slider. This slider allows you to adjust your voting power from 1% to 100%.
Let's just say you have enough VOTING POWER that each of your votes are worth $1 each time you upvote. Each time you upvote, the slider let's you adjust the power of that $1. So if you adjust your vote to only 5% of power, you are giving that person .05 cents of STEEM. If the article is really good and you want to give it ALL the power you would adjust it to 100% which will give it $1.00.
The only problem with giving 100% voting power to an upvote is that it drains your OVERALL VOTING POWER and you can only give like 9 other FULL POWER votes in a 24 hour period.
Not sure if I explained that clearly. Hope I did.
The upvote slider, looks like this
Oh, thank you for that. That is perfect. So I've been giving all my votes up to now 100% of the vote, but my power is only 80% (for instance). This helps allot.
Yes, you got it. Happy I could explain it okay.
Remember, you only get the slider option after you have enough voting power that your upvote is worth more than 0.01 cent.
Oh, thanks, again. I need to slow down upvotes for a bit. :D Too new.