Minnow here! After generally getting over the quandary that it was ok to upvote your own articles, I’ve been doing it. Always after 30 minutes.
I don’t post once a day as it takes time to get a piece together. But I’m also incredibly active on commenting - upvoting others (omg my power got hit recently) and looking for new users in my kind of niche field to give back what little I can and attempt to build a community. I can’t give back in whale like stakes, but I feel like this is helping in some shape or fashion.
I can see why some people get trapped into the game side of being on here, like it is an iOS coin clicker, but my aim is to not ever fall succeptible to that. So no bots etc for me. If something I do doesn’t get traction, then it doesn’t get traction. No hills to die on.
can someone explain the "after 30 minutes"? I missed the explanation to why voting right away is bad...
If you self vote immediately, you claim the curation pool for yourself. So nobody on your interactions gets any share.
I kind of feel that is against the ethos of this place, so I only ever come in after 30 minutes. That is the cut off point. Between immediate and 30 minutes, a sliding scale of rewards are then applied.
Same if you're voting on the post as a user. Get in too early, you don't get much. After 30 minutes you can get more BUT if most people get in at, say, 25 minutes, you need to be in before they do.
It's all very math-y.
and what when you vote for someone else high in steem immediately?
I'm at the point where I think it is fine to upvote your own posts provided you don't have a ridiculous amount of stake and doing it 10 times a day. The jury is out on what the line is though.