@tipU Guide #5 - The Benefits of Sending Tips

Hi there!

Welcome to the fifth tutorial explaining @tipU service - we'll check are there any benefits to sending tips :)

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Please feel free to check out previous guides:
#1 Making deposits and withdrawals
#2 Sending tips with @tipU
#3 Checking your balance and other useful @tipU commands
#4 Sharing the profit explained

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Pros of sending tips:

Basically the whole idea of sending tips is to reward users that create valuable content. Of course we have the whole voting system on steemit for that, but:

• sending a tip does not deplete your voting power - you can send as many tips as you want and your voting power stays intact
• you can send tips that are more valuable than your vote - especially if you're low on Steem Power
• the recipient receives the SBD instantly - no need to wait 7 days, no Steem price variability that changes the tip value
• using @tipU you can just write tip! in the comment - no need to go to your wallet, load your whole transactions history, enter the transfer data and sign in the transaction with private keys. Super handy on mobile ;)
• @tipU will automatically add a comment praising your generosity - you can make this comment show your last post, your chosen link or just not add the comment at all (more on this on the tip guide)

So these are the benefits for a single user - but when you look at the whole community, sending tips helps to spread the reward pool of steemit more evenly across all users that create valuable content. In my opinion this is important in context of steemit.com succeeding as a social platform.

As for the cons - well, it costs you your precious SBD (when sending vote does not cost at all). But remember - what goes around, comes around ;)

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Thank you for checking out this post and see you next time!