Delegate. Delegate. Delegate. Delegating STEEM Power to @minnowbooster; my upvotes are diminshing as a result, by about a third

This one will be short, as I just performed this operation around two hours ago. Tomorrow I should have the initial metrics on how it's performing. Although, I'm not sure if they pay out "every 24 hours after user signed up", or if it's e.g. "midnight every night" -- so it might be in two days that I'll do a follow-up post.

Delegate (think of an INXS song)

I delegated 10,000 SP (which for some reason it turned into 10189.214 SP on the next page!), which took effect immediately; now I only have 15,237.308 SP of voting power (the full 25,399.853 SP in my account can be used for witness voting, I've read but don't know much about). So, my 100% upvote at 100% voting power was worth around $3.65; now, it's only worth $1.69 at 73.43% voting power (the current value), which I think converts to 100% at $2.30. That is 63% of $3.65, meaning I've lost a little over a third of my upvote strength.

Just wanted to let people know, in case you're wondering "He used to give $0.14, now I'm only getting $0.09, what gives?" I'm still giving the same 5% upvote :), just, I've delegated some power.

Question

That leads to a question: when you upvote others, do you generally do a certain percentage? Or do you try to achieve a certain dollar amount? The web interface doesn't tell you what the dollar amount will be beforehand, so the latter might involve upvoting, seeing what it did, reversing your upvote, and then upvoting more (or less) to try to hit the target dollar amount.

Myself, I generally give a 5% upvote to everyone who comments to me (apart from obvious bots, or negative comments), and 100% upvotes for close friends.

Upvote testing: got my first self-goat! :)

I'm also testing their upvoting process, which I'll document here. They have two voting types, normal and "stealth" but the latter isn't described anywhere, including in their intro post. So I'll just do a regular one. Current stats, from https://www.minnowbooster.net/:

Current Voting Power 61.46%
Current Vote Strength of Normal Votes: ≈ $1.844 per SBD
Current Vote Strength of Stealth Votes: ≈ $1.229 per SBD

So, if I spend 1 SBD, I should get 84.4% more back. Let's try that on my most recent post, about hitting the deer.. The process: from your Wallet page, send SBD to @minnowbooster, with the comment being the URL to the post to upvote. Let's test it: okay, sent that at 1:30:30 pm or so (Eastern time).

Note that I see two popups every time activity happens in my wallet. Is this a Steemit bug, or have I told it to accept notifications from multiple browsers or something?

The article currently has $2.06 worth of upvotes from 18 votes. Refresh and I see 19 votes, with $3.98 total. That's a $1.92 difference. But their comment (which I upvoted at 5%, currently the $0.09 mentioned above) only says it upvoted me by $1.58, so perhaps more votes came in during that time? I didn't record who had done those votes, only the total. Looking at https://steemd.com/@libertyteeth I see that @minnowbooster upvoted and commented three minutes after I had sent the SBD; and, I also got an upvote from @upgoat and @geneeverett after I had sent the 1 SBD, so the math discrepancy makes sense.

So it wasn't quite the 84.4% back, looks like only 58% -- but, it's still a better return than what I spent!

And, I see what the "stealth" option refers to -- the comment it left said "@libertyteeth, you got yourself a self-goat!" :) Apparently the "stealth" one doesn't indicate that I've done it, at the expense of a lower upvote (22.9% above, compared to 84.4% for non-stealth).

I'm still learning, hope this helps you!

INXS: Mediate!

The word "delegate" doesn't appear in the list of cards he's throwing in the industrial setting, but this song still came to mind. :)