Off to Live in a Cave for a Few Days...
Good thing the cave has lots of wine.
Anyone who knows me knows I love autovoting my peeps (the ones I can count on to provide awesome content, but aren't yet making obscene amounts of money like a whale.) If you frequently see my upvote, but I don't comment every single time, it means I'm probably autovoting you. ;)
I also love manually upvoting people I'm not following if their post moves me in some way.
However, since the rollout of HF19, I have not had decent voting power. My votes drain so darn fast...and it's frustrating me that it never gets anywhere close to 100%.
Even at the time of the screenshot below, my voting power is a measly 29.38% and will get you maybe $0.03 if you're lucky. How is that going to help anyone? As a minnow, a 100% upvote is pretty much the only choice I have in order to make any kind of impact -- and I would only be allotted 10 of those per day assuming that my voting power ever gets up to full power.
![2017-07-10_13-08-47.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/640x0/https://s12.postimg.org/af354kygd/2017-07-10_13-08-47.jpg)
For this reason and perhaps a few others, I'm going to take a little break from upvoting EVERYONE so I can recharge. I'm not even going to upvote my own posts or my son's. I also want to use the time to regroup, reassess my autovote list (perhaps remove most -- maybe all, of the whales and add some other minnows I admire.) After all, the whales don't need my help! I think we minnows should be helping each other. There is some whale content I do enjoy, and will manually upvote it (very selectively) after I have recharged.
No upvoting for a few days will also help me come up with some extra post ideas for myself, as I will continue making posts during my recharge. I do well with solitude. :)
The point of this post is to communicate what is going on with me. If you're used to seeing my upvotes and then suddenly don't see them, this is why. I still love you.
Wow! For a moment I thought this post would have to do something with wine! You totally fooled me with the title and the picture...my bad thought, I see wine everywhere due to being in the wine business. I've checked out your posts and will definitely follow you now, great content. Enjoy your retirement, grab a good glass of red wine, helps put things into perspective and relax!
Glad to meet you!
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...a glass for you, too perhaps?
I'd never say no to a glass of wine! Cheers!
@cali-girl enjoy the cave, the recharge, and an upvote from me!
Thank youuuuu!
Have a great time out. I try to post when the battery is down.
You do your best thinking in a cave too?
Hey cali-girl, how does autovoting work? First time I hear that
You sign up for an account on steemvoter.com and add rules with each person's account name, vote power, and time delay.
Okay, thank you very much :)
Something we're all having to think about these days @cali-girl! I have stuck to upvoting every comment I receive (with very few exceptions and to be honest it isn't doing anyone any good receiving my 00.1 cent reward. At full power I think it's 7 cents which still isn't very much but I think I am going to do the same as yourself and let myself get back to 100% and use my votes more wisely in future.
Nice post my friend! Hope your day is going well!
Awesome! There's plenty of wine here in my cave if you're interested...
The cave sounds amazing but unfortunately I don't drink, :( Despite the fact that I am a Scotsman! :)
I prefer to relax with the herb! :)
Ah well...you are still welcome in the cave!
:) I like the thought of being a caveman for a while!
I dunno about your upvote not doing anyone any good. I love an aul vote, even if there's divil the cent attached to it a tall a tall.
Really good start in this post :-). Give you what i can, hope you recover quickly,
Thank you very much!
good luck with the rehab of steemit i heared its quite intense
I'll still be around, just not clicking that blue upvote button that I sooo want to click right now. :)
Well, get a break in and I'll be looking forward to another post when you get the chance :)
Probably will be pretty soon. Curating actually takes quite a bit of time, so I'll have some extra free time to express my weirdness. :)
manually upvoted :)
HF19 is a bitch.
Yes, I'm not loving it too much anymore.