Right. Now I am at an actual keyboard.
When you get a reward on the post, there is a reward ratio. 75% goes to you, 25% goes to the contributors on the post.
This ratio can be affected by the first 30 minutes. Vote on yourself immediately, the ration becomes 100% to you, and that decreases towards the default over that 30 minute window.
My personal way of doing things is that I upvote my post after 30 minutes. I don't have huge power, so it's not a massive thing. One thing I struggle with here is the nature of self upvoting - some/a-lot of people are fine with this, others I have seen to be more judgemental. It's not cut and paste. Certainly, if you're controlling $$$ with your upvotes, it starts to get more and more frowned upon.
I've kind of "got over it" personally, and I just see it all as adding to a pot which helps me nurture the electronic music people on here.
EDIT:
Also, as a newbie, go check out @welcoming and look up people doing introduction posts. Introducing yourself is a bit of a thing on here, and usually helps kick you off on your journey.
hi @fourfourfun that is really good info! Thanks for taking the time to let me know!
It’s a bit to take in at first! It took me, like, a month to get under the skin of this place.