Being pretty new to Steemit it difficult to know whether the changes ae due to the system to the popularity of my posts. I wasn't aware of the last points you made in you list of 4. It all sounds really complicated so generally I'm just looking to see if my SP is going up and my overall value.

The latter seems to fluctuate wildly but overall it's an upward trend.

Thanks for the explanation. I'm sure I'll be rereading this article many times.