What happens when you Auto Upvote Your Own Post ?
It's a default setting here on Steemit. Recently, several things have changed behind the scenes. This one is rather important if you want to get credit for voting for yourself (if you don't care, then read no more).
Here's a behind the scenes look at what the OP gets as far as a percentage of the curation rewards. @kennyskitchen shows 0 Weight and will get 0% of the curation rewards. This may not be such a big deal for most of us minnows, but for the large fishies out there, it'll make a huge difference if you are creating content of your own. Of course, when the minnows do there thing, humble as it may be, it's good to be getting all the tidbits you can the sooner the better.
The OP (original poster) was @kennyskitchen and the only slice of the pie he'll be getting is the one from his Vegan Cheesecake plus the regular payout portion.
Back to the graphic, the orange coded icons represent users that have a lot of Steem Power and therefore, voting weight. Hence, they'll also be taking the whale's share of the curation reward for putting their 'seal of approval' on the article as such.
Wow, I had a "large impact", who knew... 0.99% - of course, all these numbers are changing as time progresses and other weighted users vote or not further shifting the distrubutions percentages.
Update: It appears that after you untick the 'upvote post' box, your preference will remain (best to check each time in case you've cleared your cookies)
I almost forgot to untick the upvote box for this post, that would have been ironic!
Results
Preliminary figures from this post: author voting on own post with meager amount of SP and slightly beat up voting power at 86%
#steemit #upvote #whales #steemstats
(special thanks to @jesta #steemstats for building that interface)
It actually does still make sense to vote for yourself. Please see this post for details.
https://steemit.com/steem/@abit/new-curation-reward-algorithm-huge-penalty-to-early-voters
yes, vote, but not right out of the gate!
Free Upvote BOt for Steemit ...
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Solid post once again and helping out the community :)
41 votes and only 0.04? #MinnowsUnite we must tip the scales!
+111
a new mass vote bot just hit the scene - someone just wrote an article about it
@cryptocameo, I think this new update has lowered payouts or something. I too have noticed many upvotes on articles that maybe might have earned dollars that are now earning cents.
very interesting indeed!
Thanks for the super valuable information! I won't be checking the self upvote box now on my next blog!
fuck off downvote bot, my 1 cent is bigger than you
huzzah - I found someone who uses my ultimate favorite F-word phrase. LOL
looks like they are testing the DV bot on your comment - so harsh!
at least all these accounts that compose the bot seem to have relatively low SP, @cryptocameo was able to throw me into the positive by .01 still despite all those flags
I support this positive take on such a rough situation.
Thats because we are hitting you with .1%. We can always up it and throw on accounts with heavy sp if you want.
Can you please don't use such a big picture in a reply?
good info im not sure i get it though. should i be up-ticking my posts or not?
yeah idk either haha heres a helpful post i read
Do you think its worth it to delete something and repost it if it didn't get any attention but you think it's a good post?
I was reading this comment from a post on upvoting yourself by user
[-]bardamazon (40) · 6 months ago
Be careful upvoting yourself. I did that on my first day on here with all of my 30 posts and I ended up running out of upvotes for the day. I find it is better to post one - three posts a day and spend the rest of your time reading, sharing, and commenting on other people's posts. It's a great way to meet others and up your overall score. It's also more fun and interactive than just posting your stuff that gets quickly shoved down to the bottom if it doesn't pick up views, resteems, or upvotes in the first few minutes. It's like you never existed after that.
And it got me realizing that is what happened to me in my one post in the art section, even though i thought it was better than my post in the introduceyourself section, it got a lot less attention.
I think i'm just going to repost it.
Any thoughts you have will be much appreciated?
Will upvote comment and follow back : )
Trying to help this community grow.
Thanks for your time,
~Elias
P.S. Also if any one could explain this witness thing i would appreciate it haha
I didn't know you could run out of votes. Thanks for the tip.
Nice to know, so i wont auto-upvote my own post.
I will follow you, because you seem pretty nice.
Thank you for the information. but still where can I find more info about this vote stuff as I just join few weeks.
I'm still new to this and trying to learn things. This indeed helps. Thanks!
Thanks for the post, its helping me improve on steemit
I wrote a related a post here some days ago:
https://steemit.com/steem/@abit/to-authors-with-large-steem-power-please-consider-not-voting-for-yourself-when-posting-an-post-for-better-curation-reward
Indeed - thank you for sharing.
thank you @abit
Wow, I didn't even realize this was happening. I wonder if there's something in the code that awards the author regardless of time or if this is working as intended and if you immediately upvote you don't get curation rewards.
Almost every post I've made I just leave the "upvote" box checked, and it's always been 0 weight. Never paid much attention. I'll have to watch myself how these numbers interact wth eachother!
Also, thanks for writing some interesting content that also features steemstats ;)
My pleasure and thanks for always refining this tool. Really is like a game sometimes figuring out the in's and out's. Also good confirmation on my findings to hear about your vote history/results. We experienced a new bot on the scene tonight - check out the -28 downvoted comment - all of those user names are also in the upvote for this post - I cross referenced them in a pic: http://steem.link/wARyK
I try to up vote myself every post.
The question is what is the implication? I do upvote myself as well. Is it good for me to do so or it is against my interest and the community?