What's voting power?
Many users here especially those who are new think that upvoting as many posts as they can is a good idea. Some of them do it out of a bad habit while others do it for a vote back. Kind of like the follow me and I'll follow you back concept. This is not a wise thing to do at all. You see, at steemit, users have a voting power which decreases every time they vote for a post and will eventually increase again if they don't vote for a while. The ideal case is if you cast 20-40 votes per day and cast those votes throughout the day rather than all at the same time.
Why should you care?
There are many reasons why you should care about your voting power. You see, every vote you cast has a weight and plays a role in helping the content you vote for to go viral on the site. If your voting power is low, then your vote is hardly gonna count. It's kind of like gaining hundreds of followers who don't even come online or even when they do, they don't care to check and see if you have anything new. Followers that are not genuinely interested or dead followers are like votes that are not genuine and are therefore dead.
How do I check my voting power?
Currently there is no way to check your voting power on steemit.com. You can however check your voting power either on steemd.com or steemdb.com. The photo that I have created for this post is a collection of voting powers from different users that I shot off of my screen from steemdb.com. To see a similar bar for your account, go to steemdb.com/@username where username is your steemit username. Once the page loads, you can see your voting power on the right side of the screen as shown in my screenshot below.
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