Hey! I will try to explain a little bit more that I learned from my experience.
Basic thing is that if you follow one person then you get one "point", which means that up to one other person may choose your profile from the site and click the "follow" button and become your follower. After that your points will go back to zero and your profile will not be shown on the site. By joining the site you get 5 extra "points" so in total you may have five more followers from the site than you are following. These "points" are only accumulated when you click the "follow" button through the steemfollower site.
The site won't tell you if your upvotes are from the steemfollowers site or have been given using the steemit site. In practice, there is a proxy way of knowing that by using steem block tools like steemnow and look for votes with 45.55% upvote power (the default power value from steemfollowers).
But with followers there is no way, that I know of, to check where they come from. But either way, the more upvotes and followers you have, the better. Don't you think? ;)
I have another question that maybe you can enlighten me with again. I just went on steemnow and you were right I can see those upvotes with 45.55%.
My question is, what is the value of that 45.55%? I was wondering why one of my post which got 12 votes and only sitting on 6 cents and that 6 cents came from me and another who upvoted with 80% - 100% steem power.
So what is the point of getting upvoted if the post is not getting $value?
Sorry for the questions, I'm really new to this.
So this 45.55% is the default vote weight that is built into the steemfollower system. It can be easily changed next to every post and it will remember the last weight when you refresh the page. The problem is not everybody knows what that number means and knows that it can be changed actually.
I read on the creators post that he's point was to have a lower than 100% default weight value so users can vote more before their voting power diminishes. I really don't agree with this because most people don't vote 20+ times every day on the site.
Thank you very much for that. I did not know about the points for the follower. I just keep following and upvoting. Cheers
One of the biggest advantages it that it's only a limited amount of people and posts being displayed so the chances of you and your posts getting exposure to others increase.