Altered my steemvoter (curation=mining) account in preparation for HF 19
If you're using steemvoter. And it seems 1k of you are you may want to consider dropping your rule from 100% to 25% or lower because you get 1/4 as many votes in the upcoming HF.
I dropped mine a little over 1/4 to regain some power so I can drop more upvotes worth more on comments left on posts. If you're not using steemvoter you should really consider it. You can find them at steemvoter.com.
Also, I just needed some tweaking to my password etc. Customer support through steem chat with @cryptomancer was excellent. It's a good service
Sounds good to me ta!
Thanks for helping spread awareness of this. We need to make sure people aren't caught by surprise when the hard fork goes into effect (I'm still not sure when that will be).
I will be following this plan to adjust my voting rules as well, so I continue to vote with about the same strength as I do now. I'll reserve some 100% power super-votes for manual curation. I like to mix manual curation with Steemvoter to get the best of both worlds, as I only have time to read 3-4 good posts per day but have lots of authors I like to support.
A thing or two before you use steemvoter:
They will use your post key to upvote their own posts without your consent.
Altering the settings will disable the rule you alter. So if you reduce from 100% to 25% in one rule, it will disable it. To fix this, change your rules till youre happy, reload the page and sort the rules by "Active" and enable them again.
When new users sign up this is very clearly explained in the Terms of Service that must be accepted before you can use the site (so you have to explicitly give your consent upon signup). It's basically the way that we get paid in exchange for providing such a valuable service to our users.
Thanks for pointing this out. We are aware there is a bug with altering rules that can cause them to become disabled. We will work on fixing this.
Another disclaimer I didn't read, ha? In all fairness, I didn't know what the fuck it was at the time. AND this is true for the majority of users. I don't mind it being used this way as long it's not ABUSED. I respect that for a service to work, someone has to get paid. I just found it odd that someone voted for something I didn't approve.
Sorry for any confusion caused, and we appreciate your concerns. We want to remain in good standing with the community and do our best to use these votes responsibly. The Steemvoter Guild vote is our way of giving back to the community by shining a spotlight on authors who deserve recognition but haven't necessarily been getting much of it. And we carefully regulate the voting power on our self payment posts to make sure our payments stay consistent and in line with overall rewards pool growth.
I have a different perspective on this upcoming change. I'd argue you don't get 1/4 of the votes you got before. That'd be true if you wanted to stay near 100% voting power, but being around 100% voting power is a bad thing. It means you're wasting your influence and letting voting power go to waste.
It's much better to have a low voting power because it means you're not letting any voting power go to waste.
After the HF, you can continue voting as much as you want. As long as you vote a minimum of 10x per day, you won't waste voting power. If you vote 40x per day, every day, your voting power will normalize around 25%, not zero like most people think.
Thumbs up noise!
What does steemvoter do?
Votes on your behalf... there a lot of people that I would always vote on anyways... you can also set various options like %, timing, etc....
What is the cost to avail it, is this ok to use it or my account will be in trouble like when we use autolikers for facebook and instagram.
It is free to use, but in exchange for providing the service we will use up to 1 of your votes per day to upvote our own posts. You can also optionally choose to have a 2nd vote per day applied to our Steemvoter Guild votes, which go towards a deserving post picked by the community.
Auto voting services like this are perfectly acceptable to use, though some people choose not to according to their own personal taste. If you'd like to learn more, here's a post that gives a pretty good introduction to Steemvoter: https://steemit.com/steemit/@cryptomancer/steem-voter-review-bringing-bot-power-to-the-masses
Thanx a lot for your reply.
you mention steemvoter but you don't mention where to find it
Steemvoter is available at http://steemvoter.com/ (normally it's https, but our SSL is disabled temporarily while we perform site maintenance)
i have a better question now. when i add a rule one of the settings is the voting power. If i set it to 100 is it going to use all of my voting power in one shot or just the max available? why does it give me an option at all? i thought voting power was decided by an algorithm with a max of 5% going to any one post and resetting every 24 hours. I don't get exactly what the "voting power" setting is for or what i should set it to for reward optimization both for me and the author.
You can think of it as how much weight your vote carries. A vote at 100% will give twice as much to an author as a vote at 50%. It will also use up twice as much of your overall voting power. Quoting from the official blog post about HF 19:
The post goes on to explain what will happen after the hard fork takes effect:
I think an optimal strategy is to tweak your voting rules so that your overall voting power hovers around 80%. That means you are fully using up your 40 votes per day, but keeping your voting power high enough to provide good benefit to the people you vote on + good curation rewards for yourself.
You can see how much overall voting power you have by clicking on the "Get VP" button on the main Steemvoter accounts page.
ya i feel a little stupid now. I figured that out shortly after i posted the comment but you can not delete comments so here we are. Thank you though.
When will be the HF19?
Some witnesses are on it. Still getting tested ATM.
I have a doubt @aggroed. With the HF 19, the recommendation is 20 votes at 100% for day or how? What is the different between Steemvoter and Streemian ?
Steam voter is a program that votes on your favorite authors post based off of rules you give them. The other one follows a curator that you like and anything they vote on it without on for you on your behalf.
Understood. Thanks for answering.
Thanks for the reminder!
Yeah dude. You'd be at 0 in a day.
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