Feels like stealing when I upvote someones article
I am new on here and this is probably covered somewhere but why the hell when I upvote someone's good article they have a certain amount of their steem deducted?! Isn't my up-vote supposed to be adding to their steem amount? This is very confusing and I had to stop upvoting for the moment before someone explains it to me. Sorry for the low quality content.
For what it's worth, I'm new too and didn't know that. Doesn't seem like a low quality post to me.
I kid you not, I was upvoting some of the articles I liked when I noticed their counters go down. This is VERY counterintuitive.
Yeah I've seen some people try to ask questions about stuff and hear "READ THE WHITE PAPER" and I'm sure that's helpful and a good thing to do. And I also know that some of the stuff is weighted so that bot type people can't just come in, skim and get out while ruining the community.
Those things are great, but it feels like there's a higher bar of understanding to really make an account work, and based on the nature of the setup the later you join the more you feel behind.
Like I said, there are good reasons for this, but it's going to make it harder for people to just casually sign up and just get to writing and being a part of the community if they already feel nervous about surpassing these walls.
That said, here I am learning too. So obviously I think this is a good idea for a community.
Nope, that's not how it works. Upvoting benefits both you and the poster.
You get posting rewards if people upvote things you post. You also get curation rewards for being an early upvoter of good content - i.e. if a post makes it big, and you gave it one of its first upvotes, you score.
Upvoting a post does not cost the author anything.
Given this, why would you not just spam upvotes everywhere? Well, that's where voting power comes in. When you upvote it costs you voting power. The less you have, the less your votes matter. You can see your current power at steemd.com/@yourusername
Vote power recharges over time. If you don't vote in 24 hours it should be at about 100%
Good info, thanks