Welcome to Steem HF 19!
Hi everyone and welcome to Steem HF19! For those of you who don't know, HF19 is an abbreviation for "Hard Fork 19" which in lay terms is basically a point in time when the block signing server operators (witnesses) reach consensus that and the blockchain should continue down the path of this new blockchain with updated features.
So what does HF19 mean for you?
Well besides some minor bug fixes, the main feature of HF19 is increased voting power for the minnows (newbies on Steem), your vote now is 4 times stronger, which means you give 4 times more to the posts and comments you vote, but on the flip side your voting power will be impacted 4 times more as well. be careful of this if you subscribe to any trails or autovoting services, @steemvoter posted about this recently on a post entitled Hardfork impact on Voting and Vote Power, I recommend you reduce your usual voting power on your trails and autobots to 1/4, so if you were voting 100%, change it to 25%.
screenshot of steemvoter.com rule at 25% voting power
If you are voting manually, you can use the vote slider to set your voting power to 25%, I don't think new users have this slider and can only vote 100%, I presume you have to have 500 SP (Steem Power) or more [citation needed]
So what if I don't take action and remain voting like I used to?
Well you end up like me, I was too busy to change my voting % so woke up this morning to find....
Lol, only 23% voting power left! Oh well I'm happy some people got benefit out of it, for the people!!!
So how much will my vote give an author?
Well... that all depends on how many people voted before you and your voting power at the time, if many people voted on the post already your vote will dramatically increase the post value. If your voting power is above 90% you will give near to the maximum amount your vote can muster, going down to 80% VP is fine too, some even say 60%.
At my 23% voting power this is what I was able to give a new author by voting 100%, here you can see the post of the author @engineernwankwo before I voted with my full 23% voting power left:
And here it is after I voted with my 54 000 Steem Power account at full power with only 23% voting power left:
Just under $15 given to the author, I would guess at 90%+ voting power I would give around $50 on a post, I guess I won't know now for a while, lol :)
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Bless Everyone!
Sincerely,
@thecryptodrive
@steemsports CEO, @steemvoter co-owner, Steem and Peerplays Witness.
thank you!
you are amazing
LoLx. It just made steemit.chat to go down and Steemit itself a few hours ago.
Lol it did yeah!
HF19 must be the hottest topics these few days. While there are many posts about HF19 here, this one really helps me understanding more, thank you for your info, appreciate it. :)
Same here, this post explains it better than any other I have read.
Images make it easier to understand actually, much appreciated !
Thanks for sharing @thecryptodrive !
hot!!
Nice design, looks nice and sporty :-)
Great info! I am loving HF19 so far and am looking forward to digging deeper into the changes.
Thanks for clarifying these things! All I see with HF19 is $$$ so it's nice to really know what's going on. Cheers mate!
It's insane, i've been here for 7 days . Generated more than 240 followers and i was looking for the opportunity for so long and i just went all in , im just wanna be part of this . I've tried so mant things , I'm grateful for this hf-19 , and the right timing of starting here .
Great content! Just found you here !
Looking forward to see more😉
Thanks my man!
HF19 basically brings more equality to the community. It's win-win situation for both newbies and old members, Cause their followers have now more voting power.
nice!
Thank you for this post. Minnow/Noob here, this was very helpful.
Thank you for breaking it down for us!!! How often does our voting % regenerate to 100%?
Also, upvoted and resteemed :)
I'm not 100% sure, the lower your VP the harder it is to get it back up. It could take 5 days to recharge fully from near empty.
Ok, I guess we will have to wait and see. Mine's at about 70% so not too bad. Exciting times ahead :)
Thank you, Ricardo! Do you know at what time the voting power gets reset?
I am in Europe - it's almost 9am but my voting power is still down from yesterday.
Well voting power doesn't reset, it needs to rest and recover over time, so cool off on voting stuff for a while. It's like mana in a game where you use too many spells, stop casting spells and it will recover over a few days.
PS, I'm an entrepreneur myself, hit me up on steemit.chat so we can discuss business!
Id accept your 100% vote lol 🌟🌟🌟
Lol, come back in a while :)
haha ill hold you too that @cryptodrive ,
I bet youd be able to single handedly get one of my posts over 100$,
breaking my all time record of 93$
exciting!