Since joining the world of Steemians 17 days ago I have been stumbling my way through the Steemit community, upvoting and commenting as I pleased with no regard to my voting power. I didn't know I had #votingpower, so how was I supposed to know I shouldn't abuse my very limited power by spreading the love far and wide.
My only comparison to Steemit was the other social media accounts I have and as I am a health advocate, blogger and all round positive vibe sender. I "LIKE" a lot of posts and comments. So that's what I did here, I upvoted things I liked or took an interest in and then I would comment and upvote their responses. It took me a while to figure out that I was auto upvoting all my own items as the default was set to "Upvote Post".
What else I didn't understand is why sometimes when I upvoted things I could see the contribution I made to the post and other times it didn't move at all. I started seeing competition posts talking about recharging voting power and that got me interested enough to ask my hubby @shai-hulud if he understood it.
I honestly think he must of stumbled across the same post I did today but yesterday as he tried explaining something to me. He showed me that my voting power on steemnow was in the red but I was busy posting to Steemit, so I didn't give him nor the information my full attention. Now after seeing this post by @taskmaster4450 Pissing Away Hard Earned Steem Power...WHY??????? I understand what he was trying to explain to me.
Note that in the mobile version of Steemnow.com the area you need to add your username to is not in the top right corner as stated in the original post, its half way down the page, the third box. Other important point is upper/lowercase letters matter.
The post was easy enough for me to follow. I found out if I can hold off for 74 hours and then limit my upvotes to 10 a day until I get my very own vote slider, my upvote will be worth double what it is currently with my available steem power. Which I only hope to increase in the near future, as any SBD's I get, I have been converting to Steem and powering up, which until today I had not realised I had been pissing away. Unfortunately I couldn't upvote it but I have #resteemed it and followed him.
What did you learn today?
Anything worth a share? Feel free to comment below as it is the holidays and I have four days of freedom before work begins again and I clearly have a lot to learn.
Its going to be tough 74 hours but I will endure to ensure that I can give more to the community and there is nothing to stop me from commenting my little heart out!
Happy Holidays! x
If you want to know more about me check out my #introduceyourself post HERE. I also highly recommend you check out my hubby @shai-hulud, I may be bias but he is pretty awesome and worth a follow!
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