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RE: @intelliguy's great message about why we post, and some further discussion about rewards, VP, and bots.
I'm happy to delegate 100SP to put you over 500SP so you will get the voting slider if it would help.
I'm following you out of respect for what you did, and believe me it is NOT a way of asking you do the same for me :D
I took the risk and put money in here (hoping the price of #steem go up so i can at least recover what i paid coinbase (malocchio) to be able to transfer funds here
Because not only i try and want to believe in the basic principle of steemit. I want also to encourage others (mainly from my country to follow suit).
But what i really wanted to say is that now i also have the slider, someone made me think:
Value Quality over quantity
And thus I've decided i dont touch the slider, my vote at full power might not be worth more than a few cents, (6 actually) and that's pretty cheap to compensate for a full post.
I don't know how to call the whales to chip in with their 1% VP giving away 100$ so i do vote more than 10 times a day (not much more) I try to keep my votes spread over 2 hours period, but whoever gets my vote, gets it at full power and receives my meager 6 cents.
I know what you mean but I upvote comments quite often so slider is useful. The majority of my votes for posts are at 100% but sometimes lower for a funny picture or something. My vote is worth bugger all like yours but hopefully the price of STEEM will go up, and maybe, just maybe, I might stop being lazy & start writing decent posts to increase my SP.
I've upvoted this comment at 100% & I will follow you back. Venezuela is somewhere I've always wanted to visit but never made it. Hopefully I will make it before the US take over ;-)
Take it easy.
Thanks for your reply and up-vote Jim!
I want to believe we will join a group of committed Venezuelans working hard into freeing the country by ourselves by raising awareness on the power of the people.
I don't know if the US will take it over, but we expect to drive our country back to its former grandeur.,
Little known fact the Emiraties came in the 70's to ask us how to develop a country based on Oil revenue, we explained to them and somewhere along the path our society lost its way and corruption took over.
See were they are today and were the faux-left took us on populist promises... the richest country in south america begging for food and medical supplies. And the fat commies with even fatter swiss bank accounts draining the richness that belongs to 33 million people.
I hope to one day soon to be able to tell you; please by all means go and visit!
You will be safe and enjoy!
Wow. Well, I dunno what to say. Thanks!
I suppose that's a start =p
Imma hafta get used to the slider now. I was surprised when it showed up. LOL, I thought it was some kinda mistake at first, until I looked on Steemd and saw you went ahead and did it anyway =)
You are clearly the kinda guy that a) doesn't take no for an answer, and b) puts his money where his mouth is. I reckon both are admirable qualities, and prolly why I followed you to begin with.
I'll practice tomorrow =D
Edit: and thanks for the @randowhale boost! Never had one before.
No problem. I was hoping you were going to be ok about it. I joined Steemit just over a year ago and happened to post something that made $50 in rewards on my first post. I stopped using Steemit for a couple of months after this but when I signed back in I found I had 350SP due to the value of Steem increasing so much between when I posted and when the reward was paid (I think). So I had a good head start but I had the same problem as you with the voting because I hadn't yet reached 500SP. I invested about £150 into Steem to take me over 500SP and everything since then has been made from posting and curating. My point is that I basically got around 300SP for nothing so delegating 100SP to allow a great contributor to Steem to be able to increase his influence is nothing really. The SP is still mine anyway so everyone wins !!
When you get to 500SP without delegation from me I will probably take it back but until then I hope it helps.
Take it easy.
Well, I appreciate your thoughtful consideration, and commitment to the platform, as well as your characterization of my own.
Out of curiosity, as I've never paid the matter any mind before, is there a way to return to you the delegation?
I'm not sure if you can return delegated SP. I'll look into it. I do know that it takes 7 days from the day the remove delegation command is issued for it to actually be removed though. If there isn't a way for you to return it & you wanted to you can reply to this or if you wanted the request to be less visible you could send me a memo with a message as part of a small transfer of SBD (0.001).
IIRC there is a 7 day period of unavailability when the delegation is ended (from a post I dimly recall reading not so long ago).
I'm quite pleased to be able to vote (at low %) while allowing my VP to recharge! I am very grateful to you for the confidence and assistance =)
When my own SP is adequate to provide the slider I intend to let you know that the delegation has served it's purpose, so that it can be withdrawn at your convenience.
Thanks!
That is very kind and thoughtful of you! However, I used my own experience as an example of the problem faced by the majority of accounts. I am not personally focused on rewards, but seek the far more rewarding wealth of the ideas of those I follow, like yourself. The problem isn't that I am limited to ~10 votes/day, but that most accounts are, and this strongly demotivates folks from sticking around.
Were it not for the initial delegation of SP, I reckon Steemit would never have grown at all, so while your kindness to me would help me immensely in my ability to interact on Steemit, it would not help all those we need to be retained to make Steemit grow.
Since bots are the issue that were being addressed by making the VP decay rate limit new accounts (for people without enough money to simply buy the SP) to ~10 votes/day, and this decay rate still lets bots cast unlimited votes that impart rewards, I advocate @liberosist's proposed VP decay rate that I outlined above, which does prevent a bot from voting more than a human can.
So, I am not railing against the problem because it impacts me personally, but because it is impacting Steemit, and all of us.