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RE: Voting Allocations Have Been Upgraded! [Critical Update]

in #steemit7 years ago

I’m also curious about how the voting system works. I joined about a week or so ago and haven’t seen a single vote from any caster on any of my posts. I have however seen my VP drop dramatically as a result of all the votes I have been casting. Would you be able to clarify at what point it will actually start to work for my posts?

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Hi dexter, I might be able to help.

see here https://shadowbot.us/shadowbot/dashboard.php?shadow_id=1417
that is your shadow caster page, on the left side is your posts and there is a column "shadow reward" that is a tally of the shadow caster votes onto each of your posts. This part shows the total you gained for each post but not the details, but there is a way to see that also.

You can click the post link it shows for each post in your list to get a view like this: https://shadowbot.us/shadowbot/post.php?post_id=19677856 - this is a list of tracked votes from shadow casters for one of your posts. Names of people voting on you from here have a tendency to blend in to the normal voting happening on your account, so it's a little bit sneaky and these tools end up being the best way I know to get an approximation.

Anyway, I hope that helps ^_^

We are working on the next update really helping fully identify everything that is going on between ShadowBot and Steemit!

ShadowBot attempts to manage your VP but if you vote too often manually you are forced to up vote every 5 hours if your VP does not reach 100% before that time and uses ~2% each time. Ideally this leaves about 6% for each user to use manually (3x 100% up votes) per day and still fully recharge each voting session.

Ok, I think I understand what's going on here. Because my shadow rank is still quite low from joining quite recently, I'm quite far back in the shadow queue which means that my posts get voted on literally days after they were posted. I still get the votes, but it takes quite a while to get around to me. Am I off base on that? I think I'm understanding it :)

That is how the system works, it is an anti-abuse mechanism AND a way to ensure those who stick with ShadowBot and do well get more and more priority in the pool. We have just implemented Minnow Booster Sunday which will help all the minnows really get up in this system! https://steemit.com/steemit/@shadowbot/minnow-booster-day-being-introduced-sunday-minnow-day

Also, expiration date is important, first the Shadow Pool is weighted by your Shadow Rank but it is then re-weighted by expiration of the post. So Shadow Rank is more important but if you are the same rank as another member but your post was created more recently their post will have priority simply because it has less time left before it expires (again trying to balance fairness).