So since I joined this site about two weeks ago I never knew their was such a thing as voting power and didnt know how to regain the power and how much each upvote uses of your voting power. So I decided to do some research and this is my results Dumbed down for myself.
Voting Power
Voting Power Starts off at 100% for each new account. Then everytime you decide to upvote a post or comment your power goes down a bit and from that so does the worth of your upvote. So for this we are going to use a brand new account with an upvote of $0.02 at 100% upvote power. From 93% through 100% your upvote is worth $0.02 but from 92% down your upvote is only worth $0.01, From 92% through 31% your upvote is worth $0.01 and last but not least from 30% down to 0% your upvote is worth $0.00. So with that said you should not be upvoting every comment on your post or upvoting every post you see because it will lower your voting power and make you upvote for less money, maybe even nothing at all.
How Much Voting Power Do You Use on Each Upvote?
So with this I tested on my account and it may vary on different accounts but I dont know exactly. If you want to try for your self go HERE and you can try it for yourself. But down below I tried myself and here are my results.
Test 1
Starting Vote Power: 95.96%
Ending Vote Power: 94.06%
Total Voting Power Used: 1.9%
Upvote Worth: $0.02
Test 2
Starting Vote Power: 94.12%
Ending Vote Power: 92.23%
Total Voting Power Used: 1.89%
Upvote Worth: $0.02
Test 3
Starting Vote Power: 92.32%
Ending Vote Power: 90.47%
Total Voting Power Used: 1.85%
Upvote Worth: $0.02
Conclusion
From the first test I used 1.9% voting Power and from there it went all the way down to 1.85% voting power used. So from this Im going to say that for me I use around 1.8% to 1.9% per upvote. So please try it for yourself and tell me your results in the comments down below!
Regaining Voting Power
So you can regain your voting power by not upvoting any comments or any post that you like. So usually once a week I wont be on steemit to regain my power or if I dont do that I will limit the post I will upvote each day so I can regain power over the day.
How Long Does It Take To Regain Voting Power?
Soooooo I dont have days to wait for my voting power to go from %0 to 100% so I will do a small amount and then multiply that to make it get to 100%.
Starting Vote Power: 90.62%
Ending Vote Power: 91.03%
Total Gained Vote Power: 0.41%
Time It Took: 30:30:31
From this for me it roughly takes around 1 minute to earn more just a little more than 0.015% of my voting power back. and with that every 60.6 minutes I will earn back 0.82% of my voting power. Not as much as I expected but better then nothing.
Im hoping to quit my job at wendy's and be a FullTime Youtuber and Steemit Creater, Please Help My dream By Upvoting this Post, Follow Me, and Resteem this Post.
You seem very determined. Looking forward to seeing if you push through and accomplish it
Thanks Harleyh, Hopefully I can make Steemit and youtube work out and grow and help others soon! Hopefully..
Thanks for the well-written summary of voting power, I was unaware of this. I still upvoted your posted because it's great info. *Respect
Thank you for the upvote famcore, I never knew about this and wanted to find out how much upvote power you use to be aware of this and not just upvote everything I see and glad I did because it takes awhile just to get your power back on here.
it seems to be a penalty, restrictions to leveling up in a game, like they make it harder for this platform to grow at a normal speed as Youtube and Facebook. It has been a week for me and 100 followers and from 0 to 100, I give Steemit 65.
its almost a game because you have to upvote post which you think are going to be good so you can get curation rewards for the post and usually on smaller account like mine you wont get a lot of curation rewards so there is no point to upvote smaller post besides to help the author directly.
yep, got that right. More tweaking needed for this........Steemit.
Thanks for info tylersilver. I didn't know voting power came back incrementally like that. I read on the site you get 20% per day back so you can be fully charged after 5 days. Also, it was cool to see how you tested it.
Keep up the quality posts and i'm sure you will be able to tell Dave & Wendy to put a sock in it. Just by having set a goal, you are already getting closer to achieving it than if you hadn't articulated.
Good luck!
Thank you damus for reading this post. Also I used the site steem now, link will be at the end, and you can search up any username you want and it will tell you a lot about them such at their last upvote they recieved their rewards for that day and much more. Also you can see your upvote power and I just copied the number before and then I went and upvoted a post and refreshed the page and it gave me my new upvote power.
Steem Now Site: https://www.steemnow.com/
I upvoted your post about upvotes!
Thank you Ed The Canadian, Appreciate your upvote and your time for reading this!
Upvoted this! Quick question: where can you see your voting power statistics?
@tylersilver I am supreme noob, does upvoting on content has anything to do with your steem or steem dollars or in general your profit?