This is a really great idea. I dislike people who come and comment on my blog then up vote themselves for a generic comment without even upvoting my article. For really great comments I have even used randowhale to show my appreciation and agreeance. I'm in the same boat of this being a side hobby on top of a job I love, I've considered just switching to 100% power up, is it more effective then trying to play the market to make more steem to convert?
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This is so funny because they'll be like "GREAT ARTICLE!" Like they expect me to upvote them for that without upvoting my article. They're probably bots.
Ah.. so you are able to change your upvote power? Is that something that comes after a certain amount of time? I have been here 3 weeks and it seems that my upvote is worth 3cents if I am not mistaken.. but to be perfectly honest I am still not sure.
If you go to your own blog and change 'steemit' to 'steemd' you can see the skeleton behind the user interface you see here. At the top you will see two bars, one is your 'bandwidth' which I seriously am not sure what it is, but I've only run out once. The other is your voting power, as you vote it decreases, regenerating at about 10-20% a day (honestly probably not the best adviser on all this) When you reach a certain amount of steem power, and your vote is worth more then an incremental value, you can choose to up vote with a percentage of your vote. So if your vote is worth 10$ you can upvote 2 articles at 50% to the same effect of 250 newb 2¢ 100% votes. I'm not exactly certain when the slider choice is unlocked, but you can see what percentage of an upvote you have gotten from a whale on steemd. Hope this helps.
They really don't make this easy on us huh? lol there is so much to learn... I am learning something new with every comment. Thank you for responding and I will look into the things you mentioned. Have a wonderful day :-)
You too. It is awfully confusing, but Steemit is still in beta, so hopefully more user friendly functions will come in time. The voting percentage scale on steemd is new as of the start of July. It is a continually evolving platform. Just do your best.
Any idea what difference it makes if you choose the default 50/50 versus the Powerup 100% when you make a post?