Question from a newbie here, is the monetary value/weight of your votes directly and entirely related to your steempower, or does reputation also play a role?
From what I see right now, each $100 of steempower seems to give approx 0.01 value to a vote, so to be able to give $1 upvotes you need about 10,000 steem powered up.
If you go on https://www.steemnow.com/ it has a built in calculator so you can see exactly what any SP will produce at any strength.