It seems that my vote is now worth $0.06 even with my voting power down at 85%. Though this amount is smaller if I vote within the first 30mins.
I currently have just over 6000 Steem Power - which for those of you who don't know, is the main thing that effects our voting power & curation rewards.
I vote consistently for around 150 people at varying percentages (all done for me by a regularly reviewed auto-voter bot, compliments of @steemvoter) so I have seen an increase in my curation rewards too, now averaging around 12 SBD a week. And I'm not going to lie to you... this is not my only account running a bot voting system. So in total I am averaging more than this.
Important Note
Your voting power starts to drop if you vote for any more than around 40 users at 100% so you need to adjust your percentages accordingly. The key is finding a balance which does not push your voting power down.
To give you a basic idea, my group of 150 people get my vote at an average of around 35%, and I choose to vote around the 25 minute mark for most, earlier if the person is very popular.
Those who I have great faith in will always get my vote at 100% 15mins after posting.
Also, it is VERY important to be aware that having a voting bot does not mean that you should stop reading the posts of others!
Comments are getting decent payouts too now and it is much harder to leave the kind of comment that will get rewards if you haven't read the post.
And taking money out of the equation (as one must!) you will always find what you are looking for on Steemit, for it is a reflection of us and what we are as a community. As ONE community who live together in one location known as Earth we speak the truth of our here and now and we do it openly or we do it in anonymity. And through the powers of Blockchain our truths will be permanent features of this amazing thing called THE INTERNET which I would say is here to stay :)
Final Observation
My voting power appears to take longer to recover when I have been over-voting... which is quite often frankly, as I always check the new & trending feeds to look for more people to follow and upvote. And newcomers not getting what they deserve always get my vote at 100% and a resteem too.
This is something we should all be doing by the way!
Encouraging newcomers with our votes, comments & resteems will help them see the value of this platform, which is key to them sticking around in those confusing early months. And in the end this will benefit us all when they power up their Steem into Steem Power.
Steem on my friends & I hope some of you are diving into those crypto trading markets as I have done.
After making some calculations this morning I can tell you now that with an investment of $350 spread over the course of the last three weeks (whilst I cashed out some Steem & Steem power), I increased that to over $1000 worth of crypto now in 12 different currencies and am starting to see a nice return on my $200 worth of mining contracts.
Watch this space for a more detailed report on my latest obsessions:
- Multiple Steemit accounts
- Crypto Market Trading
- Burst Asset Exchange & Dividend payments
- Genesis Mining Contracts
- The Burst Casino & it's very friendly community... but don't get addicted to rolling that dice!
https://burstcasino.com/#dice
You are all welcome to join my FB Group, Aspiring Steemit Whales & Dolphins where you will find daily topic discussions, assistance optimising your posts, general encouragement & those good old upvotes.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1281526168558106/
As promised @the-future (who was the first person to put me on to this great initiative) this is the first of 30 days worth of 100% Power Up posts :)